OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14501035
DEFICCIO BROS INC
HAMMONTON, NJ—
Event description
SMOKE INHALATION
Investigation abstract
MIGRANT FARM WORKERS WERE IN SLEEPING QUARTERS OF MIGRANT CAMP SHELTER WHEN FIRE ERUPTED IN KITCHEN AREA. ONE EMPLOYEE WAS KILLED AS RESULT OF SMOKE INHALATION AND BURNS. EMPLOYEES INDICATED THAT ONE OF SHELTER OCCUPANTS WAS COOKING FOOD IN KITCHEN AT TIME FIRE ERUPTED. EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS AWAKENED BY SMOKE FUMES AN D WOKE UP HIS ROOMMATE AND OTHER EMPLOYEES. HIS ROOMMATE, WHILE ESCAPING FROM BU ILDING WITH HIM,DELAYED HIS ESCAPE TO RETURN A BOOK BAG CONTAINING SOME OF HIS B ELONGINGS. EMPLOYEE SAID HIS ROOMMATE'S BODY WAS FOUND BY FIREMEN ON FLOOR OF BE DROOM AFTER FIRE WAS PUT OUT.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Task assigned
- 1
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