OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1000280
FRACTURE,EXTENSION LADDER,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,LACERATION,FALL,SLIPPERY SURFACE,PAINTER,CONTUSION
Event description
Employee suffers fractures in fall from ladder
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a painter, had been taken to an airline hangar and told to paint th e inside door tracks of the hangar doors. He was working alone on a section of a 40 ft metal extension ladder that had been taken apart. The 20 ft section had n o safety feet and the ladder was not tied off or secured to prevent its falling. The hangar floor was extremely slick. Employee #1 had been on site approximatel y four hours when the ladder kicked out from under him, causing him to fall 20 f t to the concrete floor. He suffered multiple fractures, cuts, and bruises.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 25
- Occupation code
- 579
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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