Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 758417 - Fifteen employees exposed to toxic fumes

Accident Summary Nr: 758417 -- Report ID: 0551800 -- Event Date: 05/03/1988
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103978789	05/04/1988	3321	0	Sibley Machine & Foundry Corporation

Abstract: At 4:00 a.m. on May 3, 1988, Employee #3 saw that a drum of ISOSET 4305, an epoxy resin solution, was smoking. Employee #3 summoned Employee #1, and the two of them removed the deflagrating drum from within the building to the outside. This process took ten minutes because of the fume emissions and the heat from the drum. Employees #1 and #3 continued working until 6:15 a.m. when they and thirteen other employees were transported by ambulance to a hospital and given a precautionary exam. Employees #1 through #15 were released without hospitalization. An electrically-energized barrel heater had been attached to the outside circumference of the drum. The chemicals in the drum had overheated and decomposed because the heater's rheostat control had been changed to 7.5 from the prescribed setting of 3.5.

Keywords: DRUM, SMOKING, TOXIC FUMES, CHEMICAL, HIGH TEMPERATURE

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	103978789	Non Hospitalized injury	Other	Furnace, kiln and oven operators
2	103978789	Non Hospitalized injury	Other	Furnace, kiln and oven operators
3	103978789	Non Hospitalized injury	Other	Furnace, kiln and oven operators
4	103978789	Non Hospitalized injury	Other	Furnace, kiln and oven operators
5	103978789	Non Hospitalized injury	Other	Furnace, kiln and oven operators
6	103978789	Non Hospitalized injury	Other	Furnace, kiln and oven operators
7	103978789	Non Hospitalized injury	Other	Furnace, kiln and oven operators
8	103978789	Non Hospitalized injury	Other	Furnace, kiln and oven operators
9	103978789	Non Hospitalized injury	Other	Supervisors, production occupations
10	103978789	Non Hospitalized injury	Other	Production inspectors, checkers and examiners
11	103978789	Non Hospitalized injury	Other	Furnace, kiln and oven operators
12	103978789	Non Hospitalized injury	Other	Furnace, kiln and oven operators
13	103978789	Non Hospitalized injury	Other	Furnace, kiln and oven operators
14	103978789	Non Hospitalized injury	Other	Furnace, kiln and oven operators
15	103978789	Non Hospitalized injury	Other	Furnace, kiln and oven operators

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