OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221629157
CAPE MAY COUNTY BRIDGE COMMISSION
AVALON, NJ·
Event description
Employee dies after falling in workplace
Investigation abstract
On November 29, 2023, an employee worked the overnight shift. Sometime before the end of his shift, the employee fell in an unknown location. A coworker, who relieved the employee, reported that the employee had a cut on his hand but no other apparent injury. The accident was not reported to the employer. The employee drove himself home at the end of his shift at 6:00 a.m. Allegedly, the employee then drove himself to the local hospital and was subsequently transferred to a higher care facility on the same morning. The employee died on December 14, 2023. Notification to Federal OSHA from the medical examiner reported a "C1 burst fracture."
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 87 M
- Event type
- 4
- Occupation code
- 834
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.