Toolbox Talk Guide: Hispanic Laborer Drowns After Falling into Landscaping Pond

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)
• Description:
  Our safety talk today is about a 23-year-old Hispanic day laborer who drowned after falling into a landscape pond. Employees arrived that day expecting to rototill some land on the property. When the equipment did not arrive as expected, they were instructed by the property owner to place rock around the pond. Safety positioning ropes, which had previously been used by the workers to prevent falls into the empty pond, were not immediately available. The victim was placing rocks around the pond to prevent erosion and sediment buildup. A wheelbarrow filled with rocks tipped over and the victim may have lost his footing and slipped into the pond while avoiding the falling rocks. His coworker attempted to grab his hand but he was pulled into the water as well. Neither of them could swim. The coworker managed to get out of the water, however the victim did not. His body was found by a dive team 47 minutes after the initial 911 call. Description provided by NIOSH
• Subjects:
  • Accident Prevention
  • Accidental Falls
  • Accidents
  • Drowning
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • Landscape services workers
  • Drowning
  • Falls
  • Accident prevention
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  Toolbox Talk
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067416
• Citation:
  Portland, OR: Oregon Health & Science University, 2015 Dec; :1-2
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  Public Health Services, Portland, Oregon
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  2005/07/01
• End Date:
  2026/06/30
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/229164/cdc_229164_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 92.98 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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