OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14509590
TOM T. HOSTETTER
BREMERTON, WA·
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
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#1 Fatality Age 44 Male
- Nature of injury
- Asphyxia (2)
- Part of body
- LUNG (28)
- Accident type
- INHALATION (8)
- Source of injury
- WATER (41)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- EQUIP. INAPPROPR FOR OPERATION (6)
- 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.