OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14382592
COLLAPSE,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,PLANK,UNSTABLE SURFACE,FALL,FLOOR OPENING
Event description
CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYEE KILLED IN FALL WHEN PLANK BROKE
Investigation abstract
ON APRIL 17, 1986, TWO EMPLOYEES WERE WORKING IN PROXIMITY TO A FLOOR OPENING 8 FEET WIDE AND 9 FEET, 8 INCHES LONG. THEY WERE PATCHING CONCRETE. EMPLOYEE #1 CO ULD NOT REACH A SECTION IN THE MIDDLE OF THE AREA SO HE PLACED A PLANK (12 INCHE S WIDE AND 10 FEET, 3 INCHES LONG) OVER THE OPENING. THE PLANK WAS SUPPORTED BY A PIECE OF PLYWOOD PLACED VERTICALLY TO STRAIGHTEN THE EDGE OF THE CONCRETE. WHE N EMPLOYEE #1 STEPPED ONTO THE PLANK IT CRACKED AND BROKE. ONE FIVE FOOT LONG PI ECE OF THE PLYWOOD ALSO GAVE WAY. THE EMPLOYEE FELL 13 FEET, 9 INCHES TO THE CON CRETE FLOOR. HE WAS KILLED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 59 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 588
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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