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Lessons learned: Volume 4 of OSHA’s ‘most interesting cases’
“A truck tank cleaning company had its third confined space-related death in four years… The latest incident occurred when an employee was cleaning a bulk liquid waste tank with acetic acid inside. He was found unresponsive by his son and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead approximately 11 minutes after arriving. The suspected cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning. The toxicology report showed that the employee was exposed to five times the OSHA exposure limit…”
Lessons learned: Volume 4 of OSHA’s ‘most interesting cases’
