105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14278808

WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,LANYARD,FALL,BRIDGE

Event
WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,LANYARD,FALL,BRIDGE
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14278808
Report ID
112000

Event description

CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN HE FELL OFF A BRIDGE

Investigation abstract

EMPLOYEE #1 WAS MOVING A STEEL ANGLE IRON ALONG A HORIZONTAL BED LADDER. HE MAY HAVE UNHOOKED HIS SAFETY BELT LANYARD TO GET INTO A BETTER WORK POSITON. HE WAS KILLED WHEN HE FELL FROM THE BED LADDER INTO THE RIVER.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 39 M

    Nature of injury
    21
    Part of body
    19
    Event type
    5
    Source
    41
    Occupation code
    999
    Human factor
    9
    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.