OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14528293
REPAIR,AERIAL LIFT
Event description
Employee killed while testing aerial lift still under repair
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, the company's president, took his bucket truck to a shop for repair s. When he returned to the shop the next day to pick up the truck, the mechanic told him that it was not finished. Despite this, Employee #1 got in the aerial l ift to try it out. The bucket fell and Employee #1 was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 54 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 2
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