OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14434377
PLATFORM,CONSTRUCTION,BACK,UNSTABLE SURFACE,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,LEG
Event description
Employee injured in fall from vertical tower
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 fell 24 feet when the field-modified cantilevered platform on a vert ical tower failed. The employee sustained leg and back injuries.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 588
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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