OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1002278
HEAD,WORK RULES,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,CONCUSSION,ELEVATED WORK PLAT
Event description
Employee killed in fall to concrete
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working or standing either to the side of a bridge crane or insi de on a walkway when the crane was brushed by a forklift. He fell twenty feet to the cement and died of a concussion. No one witnessed the accident. The working station walkway for the approximately 1,820 lb bridge crane had been used for m aterial work.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 533
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- 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.