OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14308183
HEAD,DISMANTLING,STEPLADDER,WORK RULES,STRUCK AGAINST,CONSTRUCTION,BACK,FALL,CONCRETE
Event description
Employee injures head in backward fall off stepladder
Investigation abstract
During a renovation of the basement level of an office building, Employee #1 and was readily available at the work site, the lift would have prevented the duct from falling because it would have been propped under the duct and would have he ld it when the straps were cut. a coworker were removing a 14 ft long section of air duct situated approximatel y 8 ft above a concrete floor. Employee #1 was standing on the third or fourth s tep of a mobile wooden 6 ft stepladder and was severing one of the two support s traps of the duct when his end of the duct disengaged itself. To avoid the falli ng duct, Employee #1 fell backward off the ladder, striking his back and the bac k of his head on the concrete floor. The coworker contacted the local emergency squad, which transported Employee #1 to a local hospital where he was admitted w ith major head injuries. Had Employee #1 and the coworker used the 520 lift that
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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