Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14568679

US PLYWOOD

Event
HEAD, WORK RULES, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, FLOOR OPENING, ELEVATED WORK PLAT
NAICS
000000
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#3109949
Employer profile
US PLYWOOD
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

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