OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14454029

GUARDRAIL,STORAGE BIN,WORK RULES,TRIPPED,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,UNSTABLE POSITION

1987-07-06T00:00:00

Event: GUARDRAIL,STORAGE BIN,WORK RULES,TRIPPED,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,UNSTABLE POSITION
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14454029
Report ID: 751910

Event description

Employee killed in fall from storage bin

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 and a coworker climbed a ladder to the tops of four caramel color st orage bins to measure for piping that was to be installed on top of them. One of the bins had a handrail and they crawled over the handrail to gain access to th e three other bins, each of which was about 1 ft apart from the others. They wer e moving from one bin to another, when Employee #1 misstepped on the second bin and fell 23 ft 5 in. onto concrete. He was killed.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 55 M

Nature of injury
6

Part of body
13

Event type
5

Source
42

Occupation code
519

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
13

Task assigned
1

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