OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14330476
WAREHOUSE,WORK RULES,LOST BALANCE,FRACTURE,STEEL BEAM,TRUSS,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,WALKING ON BEAM
Event description
Employee injured in 31 ft fall from roof truss
Investigation abstract
At the end of Employee #1's work shift he was preparing to walk down a steel tru ss near the west end of the warehouse to descend the steel when he remembered th at he had left a screwdriver in a bucket at his jobsite. He sat down on the beam and turned around to go back and get it. When he stood up he lost his balance a nd fell approximately 31 feet 2 in. Employee #1 landed either on the concrete fl oor or on purlins that were lying on the floor. He was hospitalized with multipl e fractures and other injuries.
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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