OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #601765
PLATFORM,FRACTURE,HEAD,FALL,STORAGE RACK
Event description
Employee dies trying to climb onto platform
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were working in a horizontal rack 16 feet above a pla and fell out of the pipe rack to the road trying to climb to the platform. Emplo yee #1 fractured his head and died the following day. nt asphalt road. They had gotten up on the pipe rack from an earth mound on the south side of the road. The pipe rack was not enclosed and was constructed of la rge structural steel. The pipe rack contained three 14 in. pipes and a 36 in. pi pe. The 14 in. pipes were across the bottom of the pipe rack. The two employees were up on the pipes to take measurements for retrofitting sections and to repai r a leak. They had completed their work and were getting down. An employee drivi ng a vehicle with an articulated boom platform came down the road and offered th e employees the use of the platform to get down. Employee #1 accepted the offer
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 60 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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