OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14261945

FRACTURE,PERIMETER GUARDING,SKULL,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,SLIPPERY SURFACE,ELEVATED WORK PLAT

1986-03-04T00:00:00

Event: FRACTURE,PERIMETER GUARDING,SKULL,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,SLIPPERY SURFACE,ELEVATED WORK PLAT
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14261945
Report ID: 452110

Event description

EMPLOYEE FELL FROM UNGUARDED LOADING PLATFORM

Investigation abstract

EMPLOYEE #1 WAS LOADING SALAD OIL (FILL PIPE/SPOUT) INTO A SEMITRAILER TANK TRUC K FROM AN ELEVATED PLATFORM. THE PLATFORM WAS 9 FEET, 7 INCHES ABOVE GROUND LEVE L. HE FELL FROM THE PLATFORM ONTO A CONCRETE DRIVE, SUSTAINING A FATAL SKULL FRA CTURE. THE OPEN GRATE SPECIAL PURPOSE PLATFORM/RUNWAY WAS UNGUARDED AT THE POINT OF THE FALL (THE WORKING EDGE BETWEEN THE PLATFORM AND THE TRAILER).

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 48 M

Nature of injury
12

Part of body
13

Event type
5

Source
42

Occupation code
859

Human factor
6

Environmental factor
13

Task assigned
1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.