OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14571244
HEAD,SLIP,DROWN,SEWAGE,WATER
Event description
SLIPPED, HIT HEAD AND FELL INTO WATER; DROWNED
Investigation abstract
ON MARCH 2, 1987, EMPLOYEE #1 HAD PUNCHED INTO WORK AND WENT TO HIS REPORTING ST FLOOR. THE EMPLOYEE DROWNED. ATION. HE THEN BEGAN HIS ROUNDS OF THE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. THE PLANT WAS SCH EDULED FOR A PAPERMILL WASHDOWN THAT DAY, SO LARGE QUANTITIES OF WATER WERE TO E NTER THE WASTE TREATMENT AREA. AS EMPLOYEE #1 ENTERED THE CLARIFIER AREA, HE APP ARENTLY OBSERVED FLOODING IN THE CLARIFIER BUILDING. THE CLARIFIER REMOVES WASTE PAPER FROM THE PLANT WATER DISCHARGE. THE EMPLOYEE APPARENTLY ENTERED THE BUILD ING AND ATTEMPTED TO ASCEND THE CLARIFIER MACHINE TO REACH THE DISCHARGE CONTROL VALVE. HE APPARENTLY SLIPPED AND FELL, STRIKING HIS HEAD. THE BUILDING, WHICH W AS TEN FEET BY TEN FEET IN SIZE, WAS FLOODED, WITH 3 TO 5 INCHES OF WATER ON THE
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 41
- Occupation code
- 694
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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