OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14533137
SAN JUAN SHIPYARD, INC.
SANTURCE, PR·
Event description
Employee drowned after losing mouthpiece
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a diver, was assigned a 15 ft dive to remove a water pump from a pa rtially sunk vessel. Employee #1 was using a SCUBA-type mouthpiece with surface supplied air. Somehow he lost hold of the mouthpiece containing the air line and drowned.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 52 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 41
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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