OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14434401
DECKING,FRACTURE,INSTALLING,UNSECURED,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,FOOT
Event description
Employee injured in fall from corrugated steel sheet decking
Investigation abstract
At approximately 3:55 p.m. on June 13, 1989, while installing steel corrugated s heets for decking, Employee #1 stepped on an unsecured piece and non-bearing end of a steel corrugated sheet that he thought was bearing on steel I-beams. He fe ll approximately 35 ft to the concrete floor. He was hospitalized with a foot fr acture.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 41 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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