OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14202410
LUMBER,FALL,LUMBER STACK
Event description
Employee falls from elevation
Investigation abstract
At approximately 2:45 p.m. on March 16, 1987, Employee #1 climbed the lumber sta ent of the pneumatic arm pushed on Employee #1's foot, causing him to lose his b alance. After losing his balance Employee #1 fell seven feet to the floor. As he fell, he struck several obstructions before reaching the floor. He suffered mul tiple injuries. cker table in an attempt to find an air leak that was possibly coming out of the pneumatic arm cylinder of the lumber stacker. The pneumatic arm is located on t op of the stacker table. Employee #1 climbed up on the table but could not deter mine where the air leak was coming from. He then asked a co-worker to come over to the control panel that activates the pneumatic arm and activate it so that Em ployee #1 could better pinpoint exactly where the air leak was. Employee #1 did not realize that he had placed his foot right next to pneumatic arm of the stack er. As the co-worker activated the pneumatic arm at the control panel, the movem
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 45 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 883
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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