OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #521070
HEAD,ROCK,WORK RULES,STRUCK AGAINST,FALL,LOST CONTROL,POOR VISIBILITY
Event description
Employee killed in fall while skiing
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and seven other food service workers decided to ski down the mountai n from a restaurant on a clear, moonlit night without the aid of any artificial lighting. Employee #1 and two coworkers became isolated from the main party, and after initially descending a closed trail, Employee #1 became separated from he r two coworkers. After skiing straight down the trail for several hundred yards, she failed to negotiate a turn at an intersection with another ski run and a cr eek bed. Employee #1 lost control and departed from the boundaries of the ski tr ail, falling vertically approximately 17 feet off a culvert. She hit her head on rocks in the creek bed and was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 F
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
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