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Accident Summary Nr: 87805.015 - Worker scalded and asphyxiated in vat of boiling water and o

Accident Summary Nr: 87805.015 -- Report ID: 0355118 -- Event Date: 04/12/2016
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1139753.015	04/12/2016		326211	The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Abstract: At 6:00 a.m. on April 12, 2016, an employee was working in a 2.0-meter- deep (6-foot, 8-inch-deep) unguarded vat /sump. The vat/sump contained boiling water and oil. The employee was replacing a rope on an oil skimmer as part of an oil removing process. He was found dead at 6:00 or 6:30 a.m. by the company's emergency response brigade. He was engulfed in boiling water. He sustained thermal burns and had asphyxiated due to drowning.

Keywords: Asphyxiated, Burn, Confined Space, Drowning, Fall, Floor Opening, Heat, Sump Tank

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1139753.015	52	M	Fatality		Machinery maintenance occupations

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