OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #170064422
CONSTRUCTION,METAL DECKING,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,LOST BALANCE,WORK PLATFORM
Event description
Employee falls 21 feet and dies
Investigation abstract
At approximately 11:30 a.m. on December 15, 1989, Employee #1, vice president of J.M. Steel Erecting, and his employees were laying metal decking on the steel s tructure of a building expansion. Employee #1 apparently lost his balance while attempting to pull extra working lead (from a welder) to a work area. He fell ap proximately 21 ft and was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 4
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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