Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 81808.015 - Employee Is Overcome By Fumes and Pronounced Dead

Accident Summary Nr: 81808.015 -- Report ID: 0316400 -- Event Date: 12/17/2015
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1113347.015	12/18/2015		213112	George Edwin Balis

Abstract: At 7:45 p.m. on December 17, 2015, an employee was working as a well tender and gauging the depth level of an oil and gas catch tank. The employee was found unresponsive with his head inside the top shell manhole of a 210 bbl separator tank on a gas well site. Emergency Services responded and they transported the employee to a local funeral home where he was pronounced dead by the coroner.

Keywords: Asphyxiated, Oil Well Drilling/Servicing, Oil Well Servicing

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1113347.015	20	M	Fatality		Laborers, except construction

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