OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14308704
PLATFORM,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,FALL
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED IN FALL FROM PLATFORM
Investigation abstract
An employee was working from a makeshift wood platform attached to the extended forks of an industrial truck. The employee was lifted approximately 10 feet abov e ground level when the platform failed causing the employee to fall. The employ ee was fatally injured.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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