OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #766352
WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,TRENCH,PIPE,UNSTABLE SOIL,WATER PIPE,DROWN,CAVE-IN,WATER
Event description
Employee drowns inside storm drain pipe
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was caulking inside a 36 inch diameter storm drain pipe that was bei ng installed in a trench. The trench was in close proximity to an existing 8 inc h cement asbestos water main in a previously backfilled trench. The previously d isturbed soil and the water main collapsed into the new trench, immediately floo ding it and sweeping Employee #1 down the storm drain pipe. He drowned.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 52 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 41
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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