OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14391411
A & L SALVAGE INC.
NEW ORLEANS, LA·
Event description
Employee drowns after falling into canal from drydock
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was on a marine salvage drydock cutting up steel. He apparently walk ed to the end of the drydock and was looking overboard when he fell into the ind ustrial canal. At this location, the canal was approximately 26 ft deep. Employe e #1 drowned. He was wearing rubber boots, but not a work vest or life jacket. T he drydock did not have any guardrails. There were no actual eyewitnesses that s aw him falling. One employee heard him holler, looked around, and saw his hands as they submerged.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 9
- Source
- 41
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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