OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #514679
FRACTURE,HEAD,BOOM,SAFETY BELT,NITROGEN,CARDIAC ARREST,SKULL,AUTOMOBILE,BUCKET ELEVATOR,AERIAL LIFT
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED IN FALL FROM ELEVATION
Investigation abstract
On January 10, 1990, Employee #1, owner of Riverdale Electric Company Incorporat cardio pulmonary arrest and multiple traumas. Employee #1 was not wearing a safe ty belt attached to a lanyard. ed, was working from an elevator bucket on a Reach Aerial Lift (Model Number HD5 045, Series Number 6000, Serial Number 4578CC) mounted on a Chevrolet 2.5 ton 19 81 model truck. He was changing out some light bulbs in the parking lot which we re 40 feet high. He extended nitrogen on the back of the truck and began to rise in the bucket. The bottom was off-center and the truck tipped to the right. The elbow of the extended boom hit a car in the parking lot and propelled Employee #1 from the bucket, which was approximately 30 feet in air. Employee #1 fell bet ween two cars striking his head. He sustained a fractured skull and died due to
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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