OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14523195
GROSS CONSTRUCTION CO.
CLEVELAND, OH·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from installed factory piping
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was assigned with a coworker to rig and wire overhead heaters in a p lant press area during production press work. He elected to climb without using company ladders that were available at the job site and he did not use a safety belt/lanyard system because the company did not issue them. Something distracted Employee #1 and he fell 15 feet to a wood block, sustaining a skull fracture. H e was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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