OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14471379
HEART,FRACTURE,CONSTRUCTION,CARDIOVASC DISEASE,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,SCAFFOLD
Event description
Employee killed in fall from scaffold
Investigation abstract
On September 3, 1989, Employee #1 was supplying concrete block to bricklayers fr om a 5-foot high scaffold. Without warning, Employee #1 fell from the scaffold t o the concrete floor and was killed. An autopsy indicated that Employee #1 died from multiple injuries sustained in the fall. Although heart attack was ruled ou t by the pathologist, heart disease was ruled a contributing factor to the accid ent.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 61 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 7
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.