Painter/Boat Operator and Acquaintance Drowned - South Carolina: FACE 92-23

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  This report concerned the death of a 31-year-old male painter and boat operator and his 31-year-old male acquaintance who drowned when the work boat they were on sank. The painter/boat operator was employed by a painting company that had been hired to sandblast and paint a 700-foot-long bridge across a river. The worksite employed 26 workers. During the day shift, the victim had shuttled fuel from the pier at the edge of the river to the work barge anchored about 200 feet into the river channel. After his normal shift was completed, the victim requested overtime and continued to shuttle the fuel. He apparently phoned his acquaintance and asked him to join him until the end of the overtime shift
  
  this had not been authorized by the employer. After they appeared to have finished the job for the shift, they took the work boat back into the channel, where it was caught by a strong ebb tide and pushed into a barge which was moored at the pier. The boat struck a metal plate on the barge, capsized, and sank. Neither man was using the approved life jackets that were available on the work boat. At the time of the accident, both men were under the influence of alcohol.
• Subjects:
  • Accident Prevention
  • Accidents
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Occupational Health
  • Paint
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • FACE-92-23
  • OSHA Region 4
  • Accident-analysis
  • Safety-research
  • Accident-prevention
  • Substance-abuse
  • Painters
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE9223
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  South Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  3 pdf pages
• Volume:
  1992
• Issue:
  23
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00212598
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB93-184034
• Citation:
  Morgantown, : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  1992/05/13
• Resource Number:
  FACE 92-23
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167532/cdc_167532_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 280.95 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:503d4ff83dc3b5023f1e317a44aed2c7734a6b8a4c026b8892738a02541ef664f3de06b7f6ec0ccccb5840c49d559db312265871f3c895278bf4efb6153fb1f7