OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221367105

POSTIVE FEED, LTD

FRANKLINTON, LA· 2021-06-28T00:00:00

Event: Basket, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Cleaning, Climbing on Ladder, Elevated Work Plat, Elevated Work Platform, Fall, Fall Protection, Forklift, Head, High Pressure, Ladder, Lost Balance, Malfunction, Neck, Raised platform, Slippery Surface, Storage Tank, Tank, Tank Cleaning, Training, Unstable Position, Unstable Surface, Walking Surface, Water
NAICS: 311119
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #345391551
Employer profile: POSTIVE FEED, LTD
Summary number: 221367105
Report ID: 0625700

Event description

Employee is killed after fall from ladder raised by forklift

Investigation abstract

At 8:00 a.m. on June 28, 2021, an employee and a coworker were using a STIHL RB fatal head and neck trauma and was killed. 600 pressure washer on the exterior of a forty foot molasses tank. The employees utilized a makeshift basket elevated on the forks of a Komatsu FD25TU-16 Forklift to reach the top of the tank. The employee proceeded to acquire a defective Werner twelve foot aluminum ladder from inside the facility and utilize it in the basket to increase his reach. The coworker had left to use the restroom while the employee climbed the ladder and continued pressure washing the tank. The employee slipped off the ladder and fell approximately twenty-five feet landing on a pipe that was laying on the ground. The employee sustained

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 30 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
889

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