OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14516025
MAINTENANCE,LIFELINE,PPE,DROWN,LIFE JACKET,BOAT,SCAFFOLD
Event description
EMPLOYEE CAUGHT BY STRONG TIDE; DROWNED
Investigation abstract
Two employees were working from a suspended scaffold, patching the concrete on p ier #80. They had completed the job and were getting the equipment ready to move when a rubber concrete bucket fell into the water. Employee #1 removed his life jacket, wallet and hard hat and dove into the water to retrieve the bucket. The current from the outgoing tide carried him out to another pier. He tried to hol d on at the pier but could not. He drowned. The other employee tried to throw em ployee #1 a rope, but it was too short to reach. There was no life-saving skiff in the area.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 41
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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