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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14455661

DEMOLITION,COLLAPSE,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,UNSTABLE SURFACE,FALL,FALL PROTECTION

Event
DEMOLITION,COLLAPSE,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,UNSTABLE SURFACE,FALL,FALL PROTECTION
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14455661
Report ID
854910

Event description

Employee injured in 35 ft fall after floor collapses

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was on the fourth level of a building being demolished when a sectio n of the concrete floor he was standing on gave way. Employee #1 fell and struck some mesh on the third level. The mesh bent and he continued falling to the sec ond level, where he hit a piece of plywood covering a hole. The plywood broke an d Employee #1 landed on the concrete floor of the first level. He had fallen abo ut 35 ft in total. He fell approximately 35 ft, sustaining injuries that require d hospitalization.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 25 M

    Nature of injury
    12
    Part of body
    9
    Event type
    5
    Source
    8
    Occupation code
    869
    Human factor
    4
    Environmental factor
    6
    Task assigned
    1

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