OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14521504
THE SCHEBLER CO.
EAST MOLINE, IL·
Event description
Employee killed in 21 ft fall when plank breaks
Investigation abstract
At approximately 9 a.m. on August 3, 1987, Employee #1 was hanging a chain fall from the steel overhead beam in a building. He picked up a board that appeared t o be a scaffold plank and laid it between an angle iron he had installed and a l arge air pipe. When Employee #1 walked on the plank, it broke, and he fell 21 ft . He was taken to the hospital, where he died 27 days later.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 47 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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