OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221432040

QUALITY ENDS REMODELING

WEATHERFORD, TX· 2022-01-26T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force trauma, Electrical Box, Electrical Wire, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Forklift, Forks, Guardrail, Head, Installing, Slip
NAICS: 238210
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #345751028
Employer profile: QUALITY ENDS REMODELING
Summary number: 221432040
Report ID: 0636900
Project type: A
Construction end-use: C

Event description

Employee falls and is killed by head trauma

Investigation abstract

At 7:45 a.m. on January 26, 2022, an employee worked on the fourth floor of a building to install electrical boxes and wiring. The employee and a coworker loaded materials into a job-made trash box that was attached to a forklift (Skytrak). The employee went up to the fourth floor and stood by while the coworker raised the trash box on the forks to the employee. The employee then removed a lower guardrail to access the material in the box and bring it into the building. The box then began to slip off the forklift forks and the employee then fell approximately forty feet. The employee received head trauma and was killed.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 41 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
575

Fall distance
40

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