OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14298079
FRANK IREY, JR.
AQUASCO, MD·
Event description
Employee injured in fall inside coal bunker
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and coworkers had started work at a height of 114 ft inside a 1,582 ton steel coal bunker, chipping coal from the bunker walls. Employee #1 was sitt ing 91 ft above the center of coal feeder 1B, when the coal 'rat holed' under th e top layer. Employee #1 fell 48 ft to a coal feeder belt. His lifebelt and lany ard broke during the fall, and he fell an additional 5 to 10 ft to another feede r belt. He sustained injuries that required hospitalization.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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