OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14548218
HEAD,UNCONSCIOUSNESS,STRUCK AGAINST,CONSTRUCTION,ANEURYSM,FALL
Event description
Employee injures head in fall after blacking out
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was helping to set a metal stairwell in place. He had just bent over to pull the stairs in place when he blacked out and fell forward. He fell appro ximately 6 feet, striking his head on the concrete floor. Employee #1 blacked ou t due to an aneurysm.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 43 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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