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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14354864

CANAL,EQUIPMENT OPERATOR,TRACTOR,DROWN,LOST CONTROL,OVERTURN

Event
CANAL,EQUIPMENT OPERATOR,TRACTOR,DROWN,LOST CONTROL,OVERTURN
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14354864
Report ID
418800

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

  1. #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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