OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14521033
CLARK OIL AND REFINING CORPORATION
WOOD RIVER, IL·
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 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- ABDOMEN (1)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- BUILDINGS/STRUCTURES (8)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- OTHER (14)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.