OSHA: Lack of Hazardous Energy Control Safeguards, Unexpected Steam Release Led to Two Workers' Deaths
June 04, 2021
June 04, 2021
WASHINGTON, June 4 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release:
Two workers at a Bridgeport veterans' healthcare facility suffered fatal injuries caused by hot steam after a metal fixture on a main steam line blew off. The workers had just finished making repairs to the steam pipe within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System West Haven campus in November 2020.
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Two workers at a Bridgeport veterans' healthcare facility suffered fatal injuries caused by hot steam after a metal fixture on a main steam line blew off. The workers had just finished making repairs to the steam pipe within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System West Haven campus in November 2020.
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