OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14467021
BURNS INTERNATIONAL SECURITY SERVICES INC
CC, TX—
Event description
Employee injured in fall from dock, later dies
Investigation abstract
At approximately 3:40 p.m. on March 26, 1984, Employee #1, a security guard for e #1 suffered internal injuries and died on May 9, 1984. Burns International Security Services, Inc., was working on cargo dock #1 at the port of Corpus Christi, TX, He was in the guard shack and received a phone call requesting him to deliver a personal message to the captain of the Dixie Buccan eer, a tug boat that was tied up on dock #1, approximately 150 ft from the guard shack. A security captain for Burns Security was in the guard shack using anoth er phone when Employee #1 left to deliver the message. Employee #1 boarded the 2 ft square boat platform and delivered the message. As he disembarked, Employee #1 fell 8 ft, landing on the bumper tires between the boat and the dock. Employe
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 58 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 4
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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