OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221459118

TRITON MARINE CONSTRUCTION CORP

PEARL HARBOR, HI· 2022-04-29T00:00:00

Event: CPR, Commercial Diving, Construction, Diver, Diving, Drowning, Installing, Insufficient Supervision, Lack of oxygen, Lung, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, PPE, PPE Hazard Assessment, Pier, Piling, Repair, Safety Device, Supervision, Water
NAICS: 237990
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #345933741
Employer profile: TRITON MARINE CONSTRUCTION CORP
Summary number: 221459118
Report ID: 0936300
Project type: C
Construction end-use: P

Event description

Employee free diving under pier is killed due to drowning

Investigation abstract

At 12:30 p.m. on April 29, 2022, an employee and a coworker were working at a after arriving at the hospital. construction site located beneath a pier conducting piling repair work. Part of the work included installing piling jackets equipped with sacrificial anodes. The employee and coworker were free diving in an attempt to recover a fallen piling jacket. The jacket had fallen off the structure and sunk to the bottom of the ocean beneath the pier. On a third attempt to recover the jacket, the coworker surfaced but the employee did not. The employee had drowned and his body was recovered by the coworker. Emergency response efforts were made by coworkers and emergency medical staff, but the employee was pronounced dead

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 26 M

Event type
14

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