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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: 51
OCCUPATION: welding and flame cutting
INDUSTRY:
welding
Industrial sector: service
ACCIDENT INFORMATION:
DATE OF ACCIDENT: Confidential
PLACE: FORT SASK AREA: Edmonton region
NATURE OF INJURY:
concussion or skull fracture
TYPE OF ACCIDENT:
fall from scaffolds, staging, hoisting apparatus, etc.
SOURCE OF INJURY:
boilers, pressure vessels (incl. pressurized pipes, hoses)
hoisting apparatus (eg., cranes, travelling blocks)
ACCIDENT DESCRIPTION:
A worker was standing man-watch on a scaffold, outside a process
vessel. An
explosion occured from inside the vessel, knocking the worker
18 m from the
scaffold to the ground. The worker sustained fatal injuries.
INVESTIGATION:
DATE: 1985-04-19
UNSAFE ACT(S):
operating without authority, failure to secure or warn
unsafe loading, placing, mixing, combining, etc
working on moving or dangerous equipment
UNSAFE CONDITION(S):
improper ventilation
INDIRECT CAUSE(S):
unsafe job procedure
EMPLOYER ACTION(S):
eliminate unsafe conditions
eliminate unsafe procedure
OHSO ACTION(S):
inspections
approval of new procedures, equipment, etc
meeting with company representatives
issue a requisition or order
OTHER'S ACTION(S):
no action
REGULATION(S): 44883015 44883179 44883185 44883187 44883189
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