OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14295067
FRACTURE,LADDER,CONSTRUCTION,TRIPPED,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,TANK,SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee sustained minor injuries in fall from runway
Investigation abstract
About 1:00 p.m. on July 20, 1989, Employee #1 was working in the floor of a sewa ge treatment sludge tank under construction. He ascended a ladder onto a concret e runway 48 in. wide by 100 ft long that was 14 ft above the concrete floor. He tripped on the runway where a perpendicular runway was being joined, and fell to the floor of the tank, grabbing braces on the erected wooden scaffold. Employee #1, who was without fall protection, suffered minor injuries.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 55 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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