OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #170228571
PLATFORM,DIP TANK,FALL,CHEMICAL
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED BY CHEMICALS AFTER FALL INTO A DIP TANK
Investigation abstract
Employees #1 and a coworker were lifted to the maintenance platform of an automa tic underslung crane over a plating line. Employee #1 climbed from the lifting p latform onto the seat-maintenance platform. As he attempted to get to the West p latform to inspect some drive motors and gear boxes, he crawled across the cente r platform and a 19 in. by 33 in. section of floor grating inadvertently shifted and slid out of position. As a result, Employee #1 fell about 17 ft into a 10 f t deep dip tank of hazardous plating chemicals. Although Employee #1 was able to climb out of the tank and wash himself off, the chemical exposure killed him wi thin three days.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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