Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 674465 - Employee falls into water and drowns

Accident Summary Nr: 674465 -- Report ID: 0454510 -- Event Date: 03/26/1991
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
111027959	03/27/1991	1629	0	Duke Power Co.

Abstract: Employees were installing a work platform inside turbine shaft #3. Employee #1 was welding from a basket lowered by a Toledo crane. He fell from the basket into the water and drowned. The employee should have been tied off with a safety belt and wearing a life jacket.

Keywords: INSTALLING, SAFETY BELT, CONSTRUCTION, WELDING, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, DROWN, LIFE JACKET, UNGUARDED, CRANE

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	111027959			Fatality	Other	Construction trades, n.e.c.

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