OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14457170
CONCRETE FORM WORK,INSTALLING,WORK RULES,STRUCK AGAINST,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,SHORING,LOST BALANCE,UNSTABLE POSITION
Event description
Employee injured in fall from formwork
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was installing flat slab support form work when a vertical 4 by 4 pi ece of shoring tilted, allowing the stringer to move sideways. A crosspiece 4 by 4 which he was trying to secure then slipped off the stringer. Employee #1 had one foot on this piece and lost his balance, falling 14 ft to the concrete floor . He struck his head against a crosspiece during the fall.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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