OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14196497
EXTENSION LADDER,LADDER HOOKS,METAL LADDER,FALL
Event description
FALL FROM PORTABLE METAL LADDER
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1 USED 28 FT. ALUMINUM EXTENSION LADDER TO CLIMB TO SECOND DECK LANDIN THE GROUND WAS 16 FEET. CAUSAL REASONS FOR ACCIDENT: 1)RAISED LADDER FROM 2ND D ECK AND NOT FROM GROUND. 2) EMPLOYEE STATED LADDER HOOKED; IT WAS NOT. G TO LAY BLOCK FIRE WALL. WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS ON SECOND DECK LANDING OTHER EMPLOY EES MOVED THIS LADDER TO ANOTHER LOCATION AND USED IT. WHEN IT WAS RETURNED IT D ID NOT EXTEND HIGH ENOUGH ABOVE THE SECOND DECK LANDING. EMPLOYEE #1, WHILE STIL L ON SECOND DECK, RAISED THE LADDER ABOVE THE SECOND DECK AND PLACED IT BETWEEN THE SLIDING DOOR OPENING. HE ASKED EMPLOYEE ON THE GROUND IF THE LADDER WAS HOOK ED. EMPLOYEE STATED IT WAS. EMPLOYEE # 1 THEN USED THE LADDER TO DECEND TO THE G ROUND. THE LADDER HOOKS SLIPPED AND BOTH THE EMPLOYEE AND THE EXTENDED PART OF T HE LADDER FELL 16 FEET TO THE GROUND. THE DISTANCE FROM THE SECOND FLOOR DECK TO
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 47 M
- Nature of injury
- 20
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 25
- Occupation code
- 553
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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