OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14354864
US SUGAR CORPORATION
BELLE GLADES, FL·
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 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- BODYSYSTEM (4)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE (HWY) (29)
- Occupation
- Petroleum engineers (47)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.