OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14392963
POWELL SCHLOMBERGER INC
INTERCOASTAL CITY, LA—
Event description
Employee falls off barge and drowns
Investigation abstract
A pumper unit driven by Employee #1, a senior equipment operator, and two other trucks, including a pick up bulk carrier, had been driven onto a deck barge and towed to an oil rig in Vermilion Bay where the employees plugged a well with cem ent to abandon it. The barge was being towed back to the loading dock when Emplo yee #1 got out of his pumper unit to get something off his truck. He apparently slipped off the deck of the barge and drowned. Employee #1 was not wearing a lif e jacket.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 41
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 15
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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