OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #170055289
WORK RULES,CLEANING,STRUCK AGAINST,AIR SHAFT,FALL,CONCRETE,UNGUARDED
Event description
Employee hospitalized after fall from air shaft
Investigation abstract
At about 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 18, 1990, Employee #1 was attempting to ret rieve some waste that had collected in one of a plant's air return pits. She fel l approximately 28 ft from an unguarded open air return shaft to a concrete floo r. Employee #1 was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 25 F
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 738
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
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