OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1000116
GUARDRAIL,WORK RULES,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,ELEVATED WORK PLAT,UNGUARDED
Event description
Employee killed in fall from unguarded elevated pallet
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 fell 10 ft to a concrete floor from a wooden pallet attached to the blades of a forklift. Employee #1 suffered multiple injuries and died. The cause of the fall was the absence of standard railings on the elevated work platform.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 60 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 523
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.