OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14382592
CERAMI CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, LTD.
OAK BROOK, IL·
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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