OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14354864
CANAL,EQUIPMENT OPERATOR,TRACTOR,DROWN,LOST CONTROL,OVERTURN
Event description
Employee drowns after tractor rolled over into canal
Investigation abstract
At about 9:00 a.m. on the morning of February 27, 1989, Employee #1 was using a Caterpillar D-6 tractor to pull four empty sugar cane wagons in a field on state property managed by PRIDE and located 3/8 mile north of the intersection on plo t 37LP20. Employee #1 failed to completely negotiate a left turn at an intersect ion and overturned the tractor into an adjacent irrigation canal. Employee #1 dr owned.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 47
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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