OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14454276
TURNER COPTER SERVICES INC
STORM LAKE, IA—
Event description
FELL 100 FEET FROM HELICOPTER INTO LAKE
Investigation abstract
ON NOVEMBER 28, 1984, AT APPROXIMATELY 3:30 PM, A HELICOPTER FROM THE TURNER COP TO HIS DEATH WERE THE HEIGHT OF THE FALL AND THE COLDNESS OF THE WATER. TER SERVICES WAS DEPOSITING ROCKS OUT IN A LAKE. EMPLOYEE #1 AND ANOTHER EMPLOYE E WERE OUT ON THE LAKE DIRECTING THE COPTER. EMPLOYEE #1 RADIOED THE HELICOPTER TO PICK HIM UP AND TAKE HIM TO ANOTHER BOAT TO PICK UP SOME GASOLINE. THE HELICO PTER HOVERED OVER THE BOAT AND EMPLOYEE #1 CLIMBED UP ONTO THE LANDING GEAR ASSE MBLY. HE THEN RADIOED THE PILOT TO TAKE HIM UP. WHEN THE HELICOPTER REACHED AN A LTITUDE OF ABOUT 100 FEET, THE PILOT'S ASSISTANT (IN THE HELICOPTER) SAW THAT EM PLOYEE #1 WAS LOSING HIS GRIP ON THE LANDING GEAR ASSEMBLY. HE GRABBED FOR EMPLO YEE #1, BUT MISSED HIM. EMPLOYEE #1 FELL TO THE WATER AND DROWNED. CONTRIBUTING
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 41
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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