OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14382568
J L MANTA INC
MORRIS, IL·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from fixed ladder
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a quality control inspector in a nuclear power plant, was dressed i ir grip on the ladder. Additionally, landing platforms should have been wide eno ugh to catch and retain a falling employee. n radiation protective clothing including cloth coveralls, foot covers, gloves, and a head hood. He was climbing a 12 foot fixed vertical steel ladder from a 31 inch wide catwalk on the outside of two 30 foot high tori, when he fell backwar d over the catwalk railing to the floor. His head struck a valve wheel during th e fall and he died of massive cranial fractures. Evidence indicated that he may have been climbing with either additional pieces of clothing or plastic radiatio n bags under one arm, possibly in one hand, when he slipped and fell. Employees should have been prohibited from carrying anything that might have inhibited the
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 25
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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