OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14194120
MID STATE HOUSING CORPORATION
ELKRIDGE, MD·
Event description
ONE EMPLOYEE INJURED DURING FALL WHEN FLOOR COLLAPSES
Investigation abstract
On November 1, 1985, a floor system collapsed, carrying Employee #1 through the floors below. Employee #1 sustained a dislocated neck and a sprained wrist when the collapsed floor came to rest on a concrete floor two floors below. The emplo yee was sorting 4-ft by 8-ft sheets of 0.25-in plywood by pushing them to the fl oor below when the floor system Employee #1 was working on collapsed. Employee # 1 stated the plywood work was performed on windy day.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 9
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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