All Other Miscellaneous Waste Management Services

Industry Summary

Over the past 5 years this industry has recorded an accident rate of over 2 times (-100% more) the average for the All Other Waste Management Services Industry.

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 21 year old man working as a was injured on the job 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.
On Friday, December 14th 2018 OSHA reps took a report of a serious accident in Bridgeport, WV after learning of an incident at Energy Transportation, Llc which had occured on Thursday, December 13th 2018. 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 at Energy Transportation, Llc. A 61 year old man working as a was killed on the job 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
0
Last 12 Months
0

Reporting Statistics

Inspection Records: 448
33.3%
Inspection Rate:
Violation Records:
Accident Records: 61