Record Number: 708

FATALITY REPORT

REPORT CHARACTERISTICS:

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: 29
OCCUPATION: planing/turning/shaping and related wood machining occupatio
INDUSTRY:
implement agency
Industrial sector: trade

ACCIDENT INFORMATION:

DATE OF ACCIDENT: Confidential
PLACE: BONNYVILLE AREA: Edmonton region
NATURE OF INJURY:
burn or scald (electric burns not electric shock)
TYPE OF ACCIDENT:
explosions
SOURCE OF INJURY:
chemicals (not coal/petroleum products, hydrogen sulphide)
flame, fire, smoke

ACCIDENT DESCRIPTION:

The deceased was using an electric welder to weld a nut on a piece of tube. An
explosion and fire occurred resulting in third degree burns to one hundred
percent of his body.

INVESTIGATION:

DATE: 1978-02-08
UNSAFE ACT(S):
no unsafe act identified
UNSAFE CONDITION(S):
no unsafe condition identified
INDIRECT CAUSE(S):
no indirect cause identified
EMPLOYER ACTION(S):
unknown
OHSO ACTION(S):
unknown
OTHER'S ACTION(S):
inquest held (into fatal accident)
by government agency other than OHSD, WCB or judiciary
other