OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14521033
PLATFORM,IMPALED,GRATING,FALL,FLOOR OPENING,SCAFFOLDING
Event description
Employee impaled in fall from scaffolding
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was climbing to a section of tube and coupler scaffolding that had b een erected approximately 40 ft above the ground on an access platform of an oil refinery process vessel. To access the scaffolding Employee #1 was required to step over a floor opening in the platform grating, a section of which had been r emoved to facilitate removal and replacement of process piping under repair. Whi le attempting to step across the opening, Employee #1 fell 24 ft through the ope ning in a standing posture; he was impaled upon a protruding upright of another run of tube and coupler scaffolding and was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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