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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #975680

DROWN,SWIM

Event
DROWN,SWIM
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
975680
Report ID
551800

Event description

DROWNING

Investigation abstract

At approximately 5:00 p.m. on July 9, 1989, Employee #1 was seen wading or swimm ing in a small manmade lake at a sub-division where he had worked cleaning debri s from building sites. At approximately 3:45 p.m. he was told by the owner to st op working and go home for the day. The sub-division is approximately 700 ft fro m the lake. At approximately 9:00 a.m. on July 10, 1989, Employee #1's car was o n the job site and his boots were found at the edge of the lake. Police divers r ecovered the body from 12 ft of water at 10:00 am.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 21 M

    Nature of injury
    21
    Part of body
    31
    Event type
    14
    Source
    41
    Occupation code
    599
    Human factor
    1
    Environmental factor
    18
    Task assigned
    1

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