OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #606798
METAL BAR,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,PLANK,FALL,SET UP,TANK,TIE-OFF
Event description
Employee killed in fall into tank
Investigation abstract
At 1:30 p.m. on June 26, 1987, Employee #1 was setting up a working surface to p repare to sandblast the top of a 50 ft water tank. Employee #1 and a coworker pu lled up a 12 ft long, 2 by 8 plank and the coworker went to the bottom of the ta nk to rig up a metal pickboard. Employee #1 fell to the bottom of the tank. He d ied of multiple fractures. Apparently, the steel rods at the top of the tank gav e way when Employee #1 attempted to sit on the plank. He had a safety belt on bu t was not tied off.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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