A tragic workplace incident claimed the life of a Cleveland man in Summit County last Friday. The Summit County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that 35-year-old Dalion Ambler died while performing an air quality assessment inside a railroad tanker car in Twinsburg Township. The call for help at Emerald Transformer was made at about 9:45 a.m. after Ambler, a Clean Harbors contractor, entered the tanker car and stopped responding, according to WKYC.
Attempts to assist Ambler were quickly initiated by the two colleagues waiting outside the tank. Still, despite their efforts, Ambler was pronounced dead at the scene at approximately 12:45 p.m. Summit County HAZMAT and the Summit County Technical Rescue Operations Team (TROT) responded to the emergency, ventilating the tanker and elevating the oxygen to a safer level before retrieving Ambler’s body, as cleveland.com reported.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) defines an oxygen-deficient environment as containing less than 19.5% oxygen. It’s this type of hazardous atmosphere that was determined to have caused Ambler’s death. The tanker was parked on a side rail behind the facility, where Ambler had been hired to perform testing and cleaning services. No other injuries were sustained during the incident, and OSHA representatives have attended the scene to conduct an investigation, as informed by Cleveland19 News…