OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14421424
WORK RULES,LADDER,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,TANK,WORK SURFACE
Event description
Employee killed in fall from ladder or storage tank
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and three coworkers were measuring two 28 ft tall storage tanks in p reparation for installing fixed stairs and walkways. Employee #1 fell either fro m some type of elevated ladder or from the top of the storage tank. He was found by a coworker lying in a pool of blood on the concrete deck between the two tan ks. Employee #1 was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 25
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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