OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14500227
SKIPPER MARINE CORP. DBA SKIPPER BUD'S TRANSPORT
MILWAUKEE, WI·
Event description
EMPLOYEE DROWNS IN BOAT ACCIDENT
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 while piloting a pleasure boat from his place of employment in Milwa ukee, WI to Racine, WI, issued a mayday when his boat caught fire. The coast gua rd and a privately-owned boat responded but Employee #1 could not be found and t he boat sank. The boat was salvaged but Employee #1 was not found. Approximately 3 months later Employee #1 was found dead due to drowning in Lake Michigan.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 27 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- OTHBODYSYS (31)
- Accident type
- OTHER (14)
- Source of injury
- BOAT (4)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- 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.