Accident Report Detail
Accident: 998328 - Employee Dies Of Anhydrous Ammonia Exposure
Accident: 998328 -- Report ID: 0552700 -- Event Date: 04/21/1990 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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107739658 | 05/01/1990 | 2875 | Terra International, Inc. | ||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
107739666 | 05/01/1990 | 4213 | Sioux Line Ltd. | ||||
On April 21, 1990, Employee #1 was standing by his truck at Terra International, Inc., a fertilizer plant in Crookston, MN, waiting for his load of clay to be unloaded. An expansion joint on a railroad car's pipeline for unloading anhydrous ammonia blew out and Employee #1 was enveloped in a cloud of both liquid and vaporized anhydrous ammonia. He died on May 2, 1990. The exact cause of death is unknown but a factor was probably that his lungs were burned by the ammonia. | |||||||
Keywords:
lung, ammonia, equipment failure, chemical burn, toxic fumes, overexposure, burn, rupture, pipeline
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Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | |
1 | 107739658 | Fatality | Burn(Chemical) | Truck drivers, heavy | |||
2 | 107739666 | Occupation Not Listed |