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Commercial Diver Death Investigations
03 November 2011
The two attached commercial diver death reports, one from the Coast Guard and one from OSHA are perfect examples of what the problem is in the U.S.!
1. Coast Guard: When you open the report you will find there was no investigation. They also list the work the diver was doing as welding; he was not welding but Oxy Arc Burning/Cutting. Two very different processes that have different consequences. Mark died from an explosion using equipment I have been raising issues on for over 10 years. NO INVESTAGATION!
2. OSHA: If anything this is even worse, the death happened on a licensed vessel so by regulation it came under the Coast Guard. The OSHA investigators applied OSHA rules not Coast Guard and fined the operator for not having a piece of paper that listed where dive chambers can be located. No mention that it was a three man dive team that the Coast Guard does not allow. No mention the Dive Supervisor was a just broke out diver that knew nothing about the type vessel he was working from.
I will finish with a core belief of mine. People say carp roles downhill. I say: If you’re not afraid to bend over put your hands in the crap and start rolling, it goes uphill as well! I am ROLLING UNACCEPTABLE CRAP UPHILL!
We have a worldwide problem in commercial diving. I lay it at the feet of the ADCI and IMCA.
1. Coast Guard: When you open the report you will find there was no investigation. They also list the work the diver was doing as welding; he was not welding but Oxy Arc Burning/Cutting. Two very different processes that have different consequences. Mark died from an explosion using equipment I have been raising issues on for over 10 years. NO INVESTAGATION!
2. OSHA: If anything this is even worse, the death happened on a licensed vessel so by regulation it came under the Coast Guard. The OSHA investigators applied OSHA rules not Coast Guard and fined the operator for not having a piece of paper that listed where dive chambers can be located. No mention that it was a three man dive team that the Coast Guard does not allow. No mention the Dive Supervisor was a just broke out diver that knew nothing about the type vessel he was working from.
I will finish with a core belief of mine. People say carp roles downhill. I say: If you’re not afraid to bend over put your hands in the crap and start rolling, it goes uphill as well! I am ROLLING UNACCEPTABLE CRAP UPHILL!
We have a worldwide problem in commercial diving. I lay it at the feet of the ADCI and IMCA.
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CoastGuardDeathReport.pdf (32.63K)
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OSHADeathReport.pdf (58.09K)
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I have always suspected that the UK HSE was complicit in at least downplaying the fallout for diving companies who lost divers. I have witnessed that firsthand in one instance!
It seems that the US suffers from the same affliction that Norway and the UK suffered during the 70s and early 80s...basically downright dishonesty and conspiracy beteen the diving contractors and the relevant government agencies tvo evade the truth.
From their reports there is one and one lesson only to be learned from their reports on these tragedies, because of their deliberate ommission and dissimulation of the true circumstances...the US Coastguard Service are simply Not Fit for Purpose!
It is also an obscene and callously insensitive kick in the teeth to the relatives of the lost divers!
Nick Proctor.
call either one of those pdf files an "inspection report". A brief
look at the two of them tells you EXACTLY what value that these
two organizations place on a diver's life. They might as well have
just scribbled "he's dead - move on" on a sheet of paper. I think
that you should get in touch with the media, John, like Dateline or
20/20 or one of the investigative journalists. It may be that OSHA
and Coast Guard can be shamed into doing their job by the media.
OSHA nor the Coast Guard even have a classification for our job; When I searched OSHA records to find and incident or death I found them listed under fisherman, construction worker, heavy construction, pile driver, pipeline worker somewhere around 40 different classifications. Their comment, OSHAs, was something to the effect of:There are not enough commercial divers to be statically significant in the overall work force. !
See the Death of John C. it will tell you more then the OSHA investagation.
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