OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14394274
ADM/GROWMARK
DESTREHAN, LA·
Event description
Employee drowns after fall from barge into river
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and three other cover handlers were resetting fiberglass hatch cover s onto a grain barge. The covers were suspended by overhead bridge cranes, then aligned and reset on top of the hatch combing on the hopper barges. Employee #1 was on the port side walking toward the stern of the barge to unhook a lifting c hain when he fell off the deck edge into the river. Employee #1 was wearing a wo rk vest but apparently unbuckled it to swim to shore. He drowned.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 41
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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