OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221431802
SEA CREST NURSERY, INC.
SANTA BARBARA, CA·
Event description
Worker fractures hip in fall from elevated position
Investigation abstract
At 3:35 p.m. on October 21, 2021, an employee was working for a nursery. He was standing in a tractor's bucket, cutting dry fronds from a palm tree. He was working from an elevated position, approximately 9 feet (2.7 meters) above the ground. He fell. He fractured his right hip. He was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 49 M
- Event type
- 5
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