OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14568679
HEAD,WORK RULES,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,FLOOR OPENING,ELEVATED WORK PLAT
Event description
Employee killed in fall from elevated work platform
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 went to a dust collection bag house to restart the system, which app arently had shut down due to a clog. He climbed to a 8 ft 9 in. high metal work platform used to access a screen in the system. After opening an inspection door on the platform, Employee #1 apparently fell through the platform's ladder open ing, striking his head on concrete. He was killed. There were no witnesses to th e accident.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 695
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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