OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14532303
CRYSTAL STAR INC
KODIAK, AK·
Event description
Employee drowns in icy cold water
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing or jumping from the railing on a vessel. The employee f ell, struck his head, and landed in the icy cold water. He sank to the bottom an d drowned. Employee #1 also suffered severe hypothermia. Physicians were unable to revive him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- BODYSYSTEM (4)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WATER (41)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- 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.