OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14534804
DOLE PACKAGED FOOD COMPANY, DOLE ISLEWAYS DEPT.
HONOLULU, HI·
Event description
Employee drowns in fall from pier
Investigation abstract
At 6:15 a.m. on February 17, 1988, Employee #1, a welder, and a coworker, a supe administered, but Employee #1 never regained consciousness. He drowned. rintendent, went to pier #36 to determine the amount of work necessary to repair barge #4. Access to the barge was provided by portable stairs with a small plat form on the pier. They had to step across a 3 ft gap over water to get on the ba rge. The superintendent stepped across onto the barge, but Employee #1 apparentl y lost his balance when he tried to step across, and he fell into the water betw een the barge and the pier. He struck his head on the pier during the fall, and was knocked unconscious. Employee #1 surfaced under the pier and because it was before daybreak, it took rescuers between 3 and 5 minutes to find him.. CPR was
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 65 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 4
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 783
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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