OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14403521
ELEMENTIS CHROMIUM L.L.P.
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX·
Event description
Employee drowns after falling through top of tank
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was walking atop a storage tank and fell through a rusted area. He d rowned in the liquid sodium sulfide stored in the tank.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 Male
- Nature of injury
- Asphyxia (2)
- Part of body
- LUNG (28)
- Accident type
- OTHER (14)
- Source of injury
- CHEM LIQUIDS/VAPORS (9)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MALFUNC IN SECURING/WARNING OP (4)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- 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.