OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14503296
CONTINENTAL STEEL & CONVEYOR CO.
KANSAS CITY, KS·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from dip tank
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was walking along an unguarded platform on the south side at the top of a large, 140 feet long by 10 feet deep dip tank that was under construction. He was about to cross to the other side of the open-topped tank by way of an un guarded, unsecured pick board laid north-to-south across the open top of the tan k. When he stepped on the edge of the board, it became displaced and he fell ove r backward. His head struck a round steel bar fixed at the bottom of the tank. H e was pronounced dead on arrival at the Kansas University Medical Center.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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