OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14414460
NORTHWEST ERECTION SERVICES, INC.
OMAHA, NE·
Event description
Employee dies in fall from basket
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was moving a work platform. He had gotten the angle clips and was ge tting into the basket of a Nisso America, Inc., aerial lift (model "Angel's Wing s") when the tube steel broke the welds and came loose, falling to the steel bel ow. Employee #1 fell out of the basket and struck the tube steel as he fell to t he concrete basement floor. Employee #1 was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 41 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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