OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14463251
B-T ENERGY CORPORATION
LOUISVILLE, KY·
Event description
Security guard drowns after falling in river on rounds
Investigation abstract
At 6:30 p.m. on January 20, 1988, Employee #1, a security guard working alone, w as reported missing from his work station by the relief man. Employee #1's dutie s included checking the plant (a tank storage wholesale facility), which require d him to go on the floating dock/barge. Employee #1 was not wearing a personal f lotation device and presumably fell in the river. His body was discovered on May 21, 1988, on a beach downstream. The coroner's official cause of death was drow ning.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 53 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 41
- Occupation code
- 426
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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