OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14352504
ENVIRONMENTAL DREDGING SPECIALISTS, INC.
PENNINGTON, AL—
Event description
EMPLOYEE JUMPED INTO WATER FROM A SINKING BOAT AND DROWNED
Investigation abstract
On March 11, 1985, at approximately 10 am, employee #1 and a second employee wer e retrieving floats from a lake, where they had just finished a dredging job. Em ployee #1 was standing in the bow of the boat, lifting the floats into the boat. The boat apparently became overloaded in the bow and sank, bow-first. Employee #1 was not wearing a life jacket. Employee #1 jumped into the water as the boat sank and tried to swim 80 feet to shore. He had swum about 60 feet when he yelle d to the other employee that he was going under. The body of employee #1 was fou nd at 1 pm on the same day.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 21 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 4
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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