Incident Report Subject: US - Static Electricity, Lack of Fire-Retardant Clothing to Blame in Fatal Gas Field Blast Date of Email report: Sun 30/11/2014 09:59 Report Detail:
Smoke billows at the scene of a gas storage tank explosion near La Barge. A maintenance crew was cleaning the tank when it exploded. One of the people injured in the explosion died at a hospital in Salt Lake City The fatal flash fire at a natural gas processing site in western Wyoming appears to have been caused by static electricity, according to a preliminary investigation by the Wyoming Occupational Safety and Health Administration. One man was killed in the incident and three others were injured. The site, which included two storage tanks and a well, was being cleaned. The cleaning appears to have created the static electricity that sparked the fire, said Hayley McKee, an OSHA spokeswoman. Some of the four men were not wearing fire-retardant clothing, she said. The investigation into the accident is ongoing. Jared Loftiss, 35, died later that day at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City. Two other men remained at the hospital's burn unit Wednesday, a hospital spokeswoman said. The fourth individual was treated and released from a Wyoming clinic. The fire took place on the La Barge Highway about 30 miles north of Green River. The site is owned by EOG Resources of Houston. One of the men injured was an EOG employee. The remaining three, including Loftiss, were contractors. IMPORTANT – JOIFF is the leading international organisation when it comes to guidance on fire-resisting clothing for the high hazard sector. Also translated into Croatian and French;. Make sure you download your free copy from the JOIFF Website’s Standards Section: http://joiff.com/downloads.htm Or directly from the following address: http://www.joiff.com/catalyst/PPEHandbook.pdf
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