OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14518542
DISMANTLING,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,WELDER,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,UNSTABLE POSITION
Event description
Employee killed in fall
Investigation abstract
At approximately 1:00 p.m. on October 10, 1987, Employee #1, a welder, was help ing to dismantle an asphalt plant. He had cut all of the bolts that secured a br eaching section to its frame support, and was climbing the section to rig it to a crane. As he stepped onto a fixed platform that was part of the breaching, it fell off its support. Employee #1 clutched the metal ladder and rode the breachi ng until it hit the ground. He broke his neck and was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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