Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 1000769 - Employee injured when struck by exploding boiler door

Accident Summary Nr: 1000769 -- Report ID: 0453710 -- Event Date: 07/19/1988
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
18530048	07/19/1988	2262	0	Kolortex Corporation

Abstract: At or about 8 a.m., Employee #1, the plant engineer, and the maintenance superintendent had checked for a problem with the gas flame of the Dowtherm boiler (heater) unit. They could find nothing wrong and Employee #1 instructed the superintendent to fire it off. The superintendent left the boiler room and went outside the plant building to the control panel to ignite the unit while Employee #1 remained in the boiler room. Upon ignition of the unit, the boiler door was blown off, apparently due to a gas leak and vaporization of leaking oil used in the coil. Employee #1 sustained a mild concussion and a jaw fracture.

Keywords: FRACTURE, MAINTENANCE, BOILER, EXPLOSION, GAS LEAK, STRUCK BY, CONCUSSION, FLYING OBJECT, FACE, DOOR

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	18530048			Non Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Mechanical engineering technicians

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