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DONOR: Alberta Community and Occupational Health
Occupational Health and Safety Division
JURISDICTION: ALBERTA
REPORT TITLE: Fatality Investigation Data Base
INFORMATION ABOUT DECEASED:
NAME: Confidential SEX: Male AGE: 24
OCCUPATION: rotary well drilling and related occupations
INDUSTRY:
seismic and water well drilling
Industrial sector: construction
ACCIDENT INFORMATION:
DATE OF ACCIDENT: Confidential
PLACE: LEGAL DESCRIPT AREA: Grande Prairie region
NATURE OF INJURY:
concussion or skull fracture
TYPE OF ACCIDENT:
explosions
SOURCE OF INJURY:
coal and petroleum products
boxes, barrels, containers, packages, unattached doors
ACCIDENT DESCRIPTION:
The deceased was assisting three employees in filling water
tanks on their
drill trucks. Water was being pumped from a hole in a beaver
pond with a small
gasoline motor driven pump. Two trucks had been filled when
Unit #231 arrived.
The pump had to be primed to start it pumping. For some reason,
the deceased
used liquid from an anti-freeze container at the site. This
container had
contained gasoline. When the pump began to work, this gasoline
was pumped into
the truck storage tank. Another worker was using a tiger torch
to melt ice
from around the filler neck, when an explosion occurred. Both
ends of the
storage tank were blown off and the left side struck the deceased.
INVESTIGATION:
DATE: 1982-01-15
UNSAFE ACT(S):
unsafe loading, placing, mixing, combining, etc
UNSAFE CONDITION(S):
hazardous spatial layout or work area arrangement
INDIRECT CAUSE(S):
worker's lack of experience or knowledge
EMPLOYER ACTION(S):
provide instruction, training, supervision to workers
OHSO ACTION(S):
issue a requisition or order
OTHER'S ACTION(S):
no action
REGULATION(S): 26776032 29981008 29981008 29981024
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