OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14377543
UNSECURED,WORK RULES,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,UNSTABLE POSITION
Event description
Employee killed when struck by bundle of steel tubing
Investigation abstract
At approximately 1:00 p.m. on May 9, 1988, Employee #1 was transporting EMT tubi ng to a shipping area with a Hyster forklift truck #960. While transporting the last three bundles of EMT tubing, she got off the lift truck to pick up dunnage that had fallen from previous loads. Ornamental fence post tubing that was stack ed 6 ft high behind her and weighed 2,289 lb fell and struck her. Employee #1 wa s killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 43 F
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 7
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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