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Accident Summary Nr: 200032837 - Employee dies of asphyxia when engulfed by fly ash

Accident Summary Nr: 200032837 -- Report ID: 0521700 -- Event Date: 10/03/2006
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
310171210	10/04/2006	1799	561790	Km Plant Services

Abstract: On October 3, 2006, Employee #1 was on the seventh floor of an electric power generation facility, cleaning fly ash from a hopper inside a bunker. The hopper, which collected fly ash from a boiler, had become blocked. Employee #1 and two coworkers entered the bunker through a portal and the guardrail was opened so the two coworkers could run a flex hose into the hopper to vacuum the fly ash to a truck. Employee #1 was dislodging ash in the hopper, the ash engulfed him. He died of asphyxia. The crew was not using safety harnesses nor were any of them attached to lifelines.

Keywords: ASPHYXIATED, LIFELINE, PPE, WORK RULES, ASH, CLEANING, CONSTRUCTION, CLOGGED, BURIED, HOPPER

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Manufacturing plant		Maintenance or repair		Under $50,000			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	310171210			Fatality	Asphyxia	Laborers, except construction	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Site clearing and grubbing Fatality Cause: Asphyxiation/inhalation of toxic vapor

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