OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #686451
OSCARS MEAT CO
OGDEN, UT—
Event description
FIRE AND EXPLOSION; PROPANE GAS
Investigation abstract
ON JANUARY 21, 1985, AT APPROXIMATELY 2315 HOURS, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS PREPARING TO S TEAM CLEAN THE MEAT CUTTING ROOM, USING A PROPANE-FIRED STEAM CLEANING MACHINE. THE STEAM CLEANER AND PROPANE CYLINDER WERE OUTSIDE THE BACK DOOR, WHICH WAS OPE N. WHEN HE TURNED THE PROPANE ON, THE HOSE BLEW OFF AT THE VALVE. HE ATTEMPTED T O PUT THE HOSE ON WITHOUT SHUTTING OFF THE VALVE. THE FLOWING PROPANE APPARENTLY REACHED THE HOT WATER HEATER PILOT, CAUSING AN EXPLOSION AND SUBSEQUENT FIRE.
Victim
-
#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 39 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 16
- Occupation code
- 863
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 7
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.