OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14487003
STEEL PLATE,UNSECURED,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,UNSTABLE POSITION
Event description
Employee killed when struck by falling steel plate
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working adjacent to vertically positioned steel plates. A fallin g steel plate, weighing approximately 1,500 lb, struck Employee #1, killing him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 889
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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