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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14499933

EXCAVATION,SLIP,STRUCK AGAINST,CONSTRUCTION,CONCRETE PIPE,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,SHORING,WALKING ON BEAM,BRACING

Event
EXCAVATION,SLIP,STRUCK AGAINST,CONSTRUCTION,CONCRETE PIPE,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,SHORING,WALKING ON BEAM,BRACING
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14499933
Report ID
523400

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

  1. #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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