OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #601815
R B CURLIN INC
TAMPA, FL·
Event description
Employee dies in fall from shelving
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a temporary laborer from Gale Porter, was assigned to install/remov e graters on steel structured shelving that was 38 ft wide by 200 ft long by 18 ft high. He was one of five men on the crew from Gale Porter to report to the su perintendent of R. B. Curlin for assignment. Employee #1 had gone to the top of the shelving to help remove grates to be moved to another area. Apparently, he h ad removed three corners and was removing the fourth corner when he stepped on t he edge of a grate and fell 18 ft to the concrete floor. He was hospitalized on February 1, 1989, and died the following day.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 867
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 2
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