OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14336366
GRATING,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,UNSTABLE SURFACE,FALL,DROWN,TANK
Event description
Employee drowns in vat after falling through grating
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 worked at a paper recycling plant. Fiberglass grating had been insta lled 1 1/2 years before above the pulp processing vats/chests. Employee #1 stepp ed on or down to a piece of grating that pivoted and dropped him and a piece of grating into the vat. Employee #1 drowned.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 41
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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