Accident Report Detail
Accident: 51066.015 - Employee Dies After Solvent Ignites In An Auto Body Shop
Accident: 51066.015 -- Report ID: 0830100 -- Event Date: 08/19/2013 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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934163.015 | 08/21/2013 | Rick'S Auto Body | |||||
At 10:00 a.m. on August 19, 2013, an employee was working for an auto body shop. He was transferring flammable solvent liquid from a plastic 18.9-liter (5-gallo n) bucket into a plastic 208.2 (55-gallon0 drum via a metal funnel. The flammabl e vapors ignited, probably from static electricity. The employee sustained third -degree burns to 95 percent of his body. He was hospitalized, and he died. Other workers were also involved. The file said that two workers were not hospitalize d and that two workers were hospitalized. The employee who died might have been one of the hospitalized workers. | |||||||
Keywords:
automotive repair, burn, combustible liquid, flammable liquid, flammable vapors, pouring, static electricity
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Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | |
1 | 934163.015 | 44 | M | Fatality | Automobile mechanics |