OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14499933
EXCAVATION,SLIP,STRUCK AGAINST,CONSTRUCTION,CONCRETE PIPE,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,SHORING,WALKING ON BEAM,BRACING
Event description
Employee hospitalized after fall into excavation
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was walking along the top beam of a bracing system for an excavation and slipped and fell approximately 22 ft. He caught a cross brace and hung to i t for a moment before falling to the top of a concrete pipe lying in the excavat ion. Employee #1 slid from the pipe and fell onto some 2 by 4s that were bracing forms at the bottom of the trench. Employee #1 was not using any fall protectio n and was hospitalized..
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 2
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