OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14296404
STUCK,CLEANING,WELL,CONSTRUCTION
Event description
Employee rescued after becoming stuck in bottom of well
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was lowered into the bottom of a 36 ft deep by 3 ft wide well to cle an the muck from the bottom. He had been sending up buckets of muck for about an hour when the suction became too much for him to overcome and he became stuck i n the knee-deep water. By the time Employee #1 was rescued 6 or 7 hours later, t he water level had reached chest height.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 21 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 41
- Occupation code
- 889
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 11
- Task assigned
- 2
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