OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14346274
THE HARDAWAY COMPANY
TAMPA, FL·
Event description
Employee suffocates and dies after fall into cement hopper
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a laborer, was assigned to enter a 10 ft by 10 ft by 12 ft deep hop per containing dry cement powder. He was connected to a guardrail outside the ho pper by a manila rope around his waist. He was standing on a fixed ladder inside the hopper and apparently slipped or fell. He was engulfed to his shoulders by the dry cement powder. Despite 3 hours of rescue efforts, Employee #1 was eventu ally totally engulfed and suffocated to death.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 889
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.