OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14379705
HEART,CLEARANCE,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,WOOD PANEL,LACERATION,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee killed when struck by falling pegboard sheets
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were moving display fixtures and pegboard sheets with a hand pallet truck. As they passed through a doorway, some of the pegboard she ets struck the doors and approximately 7 or 8 sheets fell and landed on Employee #1. He died of a lacerated heart.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 17 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 7
- Occupation code
- 883
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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