OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #733592
DAM,WORK RULES,EQUIPMENT OPERATOR,CONSTRUCTION,UNSTABLE SOIL,DROWN,RETAINING WALL
Event description
Employee drowns in reservoir
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and coworkers were building a work platform made of dirt and held in place by a retaining wall next to the Buffalo Bill Dam. Employee #1 was operati ng a D Caterpillar when the wall and fill failed, causing him and the Caterpilla r to fall into the reservoir. Employee #1 drowned.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 553
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
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