OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14196000
PLATFORM,TUNNEL,SCAFFOLD
Event description
EMPLOYEE FELL FROM TUNNEL WALKWAY
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was applying plaster to tunnel walls. He was working from the lower scaffold bracket platform approximately 16 inches above the high walkway on the tunnel wall. Employee #1 went to step down from the platform to the walkway and stepped on a stack of plywood planks that were laid against the wall. The top pl ank shifted, resulting in the employee falling approximately 5 feet to the cemen t roadway surface.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 61 M
- Nature of injury
- 9
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 584
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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