OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14391429
L & A CONTRACTING COMPANY
LAFITTE, LA·
Event description
Employee drowns trying to retrieve drifting boat
Investigation abstract
At approximately 4:30 p.m. on April 22, 1988, Employee #1 attempted to swim out to a drifting work boat that had freed itself from the tie down point. The emplo yee had not reached the boat when he went under the water and drowned.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 41
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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