OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221399462

B.L. DOWNEY COMPANY LLC

BROADVIEW, IL· 2021-07-20T00:00:00

Event: Attachment Hook, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Catch Point, Caught By, Chain, Commercial Building, Concrete Floor, Construction, Contusion, Elevated Work Platform, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Installing, Laborer, Ladder, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Platform, Raised platform, Tips Over, Torso, Work Platform, Working Alone
NAICS: 332812
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345443261
Employer profile: B.L. DOWNEY COMPANY LLC
Summary number: 221399462
Report ID: 0524200

Event description

Employee sustains body contusions when platform ladder falls

Investigation abstract

At 8:00 a.m. on July 20, 2021, an employee working as a construction laborer for a provider of decorative and barrier coating for fabricated metal products was working alone in the facility. The employee was standing was on a six foot high rolling platform ladder hanging 10-foot metal hooks on a chain. The employee was hanging a hook when one of the ends of the hook got caught in the hand rail of the rolling platform ladder. This caused the ladder to tip over causing the employee to fall to the concrete floor below. The employee was hospitalized to treat contusions to the side of his body.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 52 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
889

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