OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14509590

DIVING,INEXPERIENCE,DROWN,UNTRAINED,WATER

1989-06-17T00:00:00

Event: DIVING,INEXPERIENCE,DROWN,UNTRAINED,WATER
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14509590
Report ID: 1032300

Event description

Employee drowns while diving

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was diving using hookah diving gear. He was harvesting sea cucumbers . On his first dive, his regulator became disconnected from his air hose and he drowned. Employee #1 had no previous experience or training on surface-supplied air.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 44 M

Nature of injury
2

Part of body
28

Event type
8

Source
41

Occupation code
999

Human factor
6

Environmental factor
18

Task assigned
1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.