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Accident Summary Nr: 94982.015 - Employee's arm is broken by explosion while cutting with an

Accident Summary Nr: 94982.015 -- Report ID: 0950641 -- Event Date: 04/18/2017
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1226666.015	04/25/2017		332323	Washington Ornamental Iron Works Inc.

Abstract: At 7:00 a.m. on April 18, 2017, an employee was cutting a steel plate with an oxy-acetylene torch on top of a metal gang box. After trimming 1 inch off the 5 inch wide leg of the right side of the 5 by 10 angle iron, the employee put the torch down on the gang box and moved to the other side preparing to cut the left end of the angle iron. As the employee resumed cutting the left end of the angle iron, an explosion forced the lid of the gang box up which broke the employee's right arm.

Keywords: Arm, Cutting And Burning, Explosion, Fracture, Torch

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition		$20,000,000 and over	10	100

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1226666.015	55	M	Hospitalized injury		Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite Fatality Cause:

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