OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221485410
152392 - BREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
BREVARD, NC·
Event description
Maintenance worker dies after falling off pickup truck
Investigation abstract
On February 23, 2022, an employee was working as the lead maintenance technician days later, due to chronic disease, with the effects of the rib fractures recorded as a contributing factor. at a private college. He and a coworker were on a pickup truck. They were unloading privacy fence from the college grounds and pushing it into a dumpster. The employee was on the liftgate of the pickup truck. He had not latched the liftgate. It fell open, and the employee tripped over the gate. He fell onto a concrete surface 2 ft 7 in (790 mm) below. The employee hit his head on the ground. He suffered an injury to his head, but not a traumatic brain injury (TBI). He also suffered six fractured ribs on his left side. He was taken to the community hospital, where he was treated and released. He died, at home, nine
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 54 M
- Event type
- 5
- Occupation code
- 999
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