OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14400196
TEXAS UTILITIES MINING CO
MT PLEASANT, TX—
Event description
EMPLOYEE DROWNED WHEN DOZER WENT INTO LAKE
Investigation abstract
An employee was moving fly ash into a disposal lake. The bank gave way when the dozer he was operating came too close to the edge. He and the dozer went into th e lake. The employee drowned.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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