OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14399570
HARPER-RAMBO CONTRACTING CO INC
FT WORTH, TX—
Event description
One employee killed, one burned in sewer gas fire
Investigation abstract
Employees #1 and #2 entered a storm sewer/junction box through the open end of a 66 in. storm sewer pipe. Natural gas had penetrated and accumulated in the junc tion box, and when one of the employees lit a cigarette lighter for illumination , the gas ignited. The employees' clothes caught fire and both received first-, second- and third-degree burns over their bodies. Employee #1 later died as a re sult of his injuries.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 16
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 16
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Task assigned
- 1
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