OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14500235
ROOF,LADDER,LIVER,LACERATION,FALL
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED DUE TO FALL FROM LADDER
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was climbing down from a roof 21-ft above ground on an unsecured 20- ft ladder. He fell from the ladder and landed on a picnic bench below. He suffer ed serious lacerations to his liver and died.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 27
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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