Owner of an Auto Dealership Dies of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning While Doing Car Repairs in an Unventilated Garage

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• Corporate Authors:
  Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE) ; Wisconsin. Division of Public Health. Bureau of Occupational Health
• Description:
  A 50 year old male owner of a car dealership was overcome by carbon monoxide when he was apparently repairing an automobile with the engine running in an unventilated garage. According to the victim's friend, he and the victim ate pizza and had a beer together late at night at the garage. He left the garage at midnight while the victim stayed on. Early the next morning, the friend returned to the garage and saw the victim down on the floor in a small garage normally used only to wash vehicles. An automobile was in the garage with the ignition on. The coroner was summoned and pronounced the victim dead at the scene at 7:24 AM, he estimated the time of injury at approximately 1:00 AM. The Wisconsin FACE investigator concluded that, in order to prevent similar occurrences, the employer should: 1. Conduct a jobsite survey to evaluate equipment and work processes and remove or control safety hazards identified. 2. Develop and implement a written general safety program and train workers in recognizing and controlling hazards affecting themselves.
• Content Notes:
  Publication Date provided by FACE program
  
  not printed on the report.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Vehicle Emissions Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Automobile-repair-shops Automotive-emissions Automotive-engines Automotive-exhausts Automotive-industry Gases Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 5 Poison-gases Protective-measures Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Confined Space
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE93WI181
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Wisconsin ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028043
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2009-105210
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 93WI181, 1993 Nov ; :1-2
• CAS Registry Number:
  Carbon monoxide (CAS RN 630-08-0)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Performing Organization:
  Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  44-45 - Retail Trade - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f3672441fed11673d1543ffe5ebf8fea9fd3e6ab5c30fce69ad2807d355ba022e4c5116aa4b18cfef1318ddf647ea1911a4f436eddd0ec0801a7ac0389eac03a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166941/cdc_166941_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 29.79 KB ]