OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #594382
MISSISSIPPI LIMESTONE CORPORATION
FRIARS POINT, MS·
Event description
Employee drowns when front end loader goes into river
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was cleaning mud and other materials from a sloping earthen ramp wit h a front end loader. He was operating on the bank of a river, but got too close to the water's edge. The loader entered the river and Employee #1 drowned.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- BODYSYSTEM (4)
- Accident type
- SHOCK (13)
- Source of injury
- WATER (41)
- Occupation
- Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators (859)
- 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.