OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14278907
AMERICAN MARIETTA CORP
NEW HAVEN, CT·
Event description
Two employees killed in fall from elevated work platform
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and #2 and two coworkers were approximately 52 feet above the ground installing a steel hopper from a platform inside a silo. When the eyelet, which was welded to the steel plate to hoist it in place, broke, the falling steel pl ate struck the work platform. The platform tilted and Employees #1 and #2 fell a nd were killed.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Fatality Age 57 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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