All Other Waste Management Services

Industry Summary

With employment in this industry reaching new highs, the 5,247 businesses operating in the All Other Waste Management Services industry are sure to make protecting the estimated total of 40,393 employees reported in 2015 a top priority. On average over the last five years, the All Other Waste Management Services industry has a slightly higher OSHA reported accident rate (26% more) than the broader Remediation and Other Waste Management Services Industry

On Friday, December 14th 2018 OSHA reps took a report of a serious accident in Bridgeport, WV which had occured previously at Energy Transportation, Llc. A 21 year old had been injured when the
OSHA ID114231.015
Accident Date2018-12-13
Accident DegreeHospitalized injury
NarrativeAt 6:00 p.m. on December 13, 2018, four employees were off-loading a vacuum tanker truck of waste material from Stabilizer Tower T511 into a Frac Tank. During the offloading, the gas monitors worn by the employees sounded and all equipment was turned off, vented, and repositioned before restarting the offloading once again. Vapors escaped the Frac Tank through an opened manhole cover and the pump of the vacuum tanker truck. The vapors contacted one or more ignition sources causing a fire. All of the employees were hospitalized from the burns received from the fires and one of the employees died five days later.
OSHA investigators arrived in Bridgeport, WV on Friday, December 14th 2018 and began an accident investigation which had occured previously at Energy Transportation, Llc. A 61 year old had been killed when the
OSHA ID114231.015
Accident Date2018-12-13
Accident DegreeFatality
NarrativeAt 6:00 p.m. on December 13, 2018, four employees were off-loading a vacuum tanker truck of waste material from Stabilizer Tower T511 into a Frac Tank. During the offloading, the gas monitors worn by the employees sounded and all equipment was turned off, vented, and repositioned before restarting the offloading once again. Vapors escaped the Frac Tank through an opened manhole cover and the pump of the vacuum tanker truck. The vapors contacted one or more ignition sources causing a fire. All of the employees were hospitalized from the burns received from the fires and one of the employees died five days later.
On Friday, December 14th 2018 OSHA reps took a report of a serious accident in Bridgeport, WV which had occured previously at Energy Transportation, Llc. A 61 year old had been killed when the
OSHA ID114231.015
Accident Date2018-12-13
Accident DegreeFatality
NarrativeAt 6:00 p.m. on December 13, 2018, four employees were off-loading a vacuum tanker truck of waste material from Stabilizer Tower T511 into a Frac Tank. During the offloading, the gas monitors worn by the employees sounded and all equipment was turned off, vented, and repositioned before restarting the offloading once again. Vapors escaped the Frac Tank through an opened manhole cover and the pump of the vacuum tanker truck. The vapors contacted one or more ignition sources causing a fire. All of the employees were hospitalized from the burns received from the fires and one of the employees died five days later.

OSHA Inspection Activity

Accident Rate

5 Year Average
19.88
Last 12 Months
0

Reporting Statistics

Inspection Records: 664
54.5%
Inspection Rate: 1.03
Violation Records:
Accident Records: 71

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