OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14300552
PACIFIC LINING CO INC
LAHAINA, HI·
Event description
Employee drowns in swimming pool surge chamber
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was installing a 9 ft steel ladder on the wall of the surge chamber for swimming pools #1 and #2. Before lunch he was using scuba gear, with the lin e tended by a coworker. After lunch Employee #1 disregarded the two-man policy a nd entered the chamber alone. He apparently drowned.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 41
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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