OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14465280
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
WACO, TX·
Event description
Employee drowns after falling into creek
Investigation abstract
On March 8, 1989, Employee #1 and a coworker were sweeping up leaves in a parkin sked if anyone had seen him. Employee #1 had apparently fallen into the creek an d drowned. g lot. The coworker was sweeping and raking the leaves into a pile while Employe e #1 put the leaves in a container. The trash dumpsters were full, so Employee # 1 took the container of leaves to empty at the creek. The concrete-lined creek c ontained 4 to 6 ft of water and had a bank pitch of approximately 60 degrees. A 4 ft high chain link fence ran along its banks. When approximately 5 to 10 minut es had passed, the coworker looked up to locate Employee #1 and the container. H e saw the container, but not Employee #1 and surmised that the employee had gone to the rest room. When Employee #1 did not return at break time, the coworker a
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 45 Male
- Nature of injury
- Asphyxia (2)
- Part of body
- LUNG (28)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WATER (41)
- Occupation
- Supervisors; handlers,equip-cleaners,laborers nec (863)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- 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.