OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221516073

H&L CONTRACTING, LLC

SHIRLEY, NY— 2022-11-18T00:00:00

Event: Boat, Drain Pipe, Drown, Drowning, Fall, Installing, Life Jacket, Water
NAICS: 237990
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346358146
Employer profile: H&L CONTRACTING, LLC
Summary number: 221516073
Report ID: 0214700
Project type: E
Construction end-use: P

Event description

Employee drowns while installing drench pipe

Investigation abstract

At 2:45 p.m. on November 18, 2022, an employee was working by himself in a 24-foot aluminum boat in a creek and was part of a team fusing and pulling 50-foot sections of plastic drench pipe into a canal. While working a coworker on land noticed the boat moving in circles with no one on board. The employee was not wearing a personal floatation device as it was found on the boat he was operating. The employee's body was discovered down stream two weeks later.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 44 M

Event type
14

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