OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14240451
STEEL LIFE, INC.
BEAUMONT, TX·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from storage tank
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 had climbed atop a 21-ft-high by 18-ft-wide storage tank to remove s caffolding before the tank was painted. When he dropped a roller from the roof, he was struck on the back by a trailing wire rope and lost his balance. Employee #1 fell, landing face down, and was killed. He was not wearing a safety belt an d lanyard, nor had a guardrail or other fall protection been attached to the tan k.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- BODILY MOTION (5)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- INSUF/LACK/PROTCV WRK CLTHG/EQUIP (20)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.