105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14568679

HEAD,WORK RULES,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,FLOOR OPENING,ELEVATED WORK PLAT

Event
HEAD,WORK RULES,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,FLOOR OPENING,ELEVATED WORK PLAT
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14568679
Report ID
1054114

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

  1. #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

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.