OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14354708
HIGH WIND,UNSECURED,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT
Event description
Employee killed when hit by falling portable toilet
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was returning to work from lunch with two other workers, walking int o a parking garage entrance, when the wind apparently blew a portable toilet off the fourth floor level of the parking garage. Employee #1 was struck and killed .
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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