OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #170253017
BOOM TRUCK,COLLAPSE,WORK RULES,CLEANING,CONSTRUCTION,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,BOLT,FALL,ELEVATED WORK PLAT
Event description
Employee falls from platform on ladder boom truck
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was going to wash bridge girders. As he stepped onto the platform, t he four bolts holding the platform to the end of a ladder boom truck broke. He f ell approximately 10 feet to the bridge.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 579
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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