OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #606848
HEAD,WORK RULES,SLIP,UNSTABLE SURFACE,FALL
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED IN FALL FROM OVERHEAD AREA
Investigation abstract
AT ABOUT 9:30 AM ON JUNE 29, 1987, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS KILLED WHEN HE FELL ABOUT 18 AS DERIVED FROM WITNESS STATEMENT, MEDICAL REPORT AND MEDICAL EXAMINER'S REPORT. FEET FROM AN OVERHEAD DUCT TO A CONCRETE FLOOR. HE AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE ATT EMPTING TO TRACE A PROPANE GAS LINE IN THE PAINT SHOP AREA OF A MANUFACTURING PL ANT. THEY ASCENDED TO A CATWALK ABOVE A PAINT BOOTH WHEN EMPLOYEE #1 TOLD THE OT HER EMPLOYEE TO GO DOWN TO SEE IF THE PIPE COULD BE SEEN FROM THE FLOOR. EMPLOYE E #1 THEN LEFT THE CATWALK AND WALKED OUT ONTO A HVAC DUCT, APPARENTLY TO TALK T O THE OTHER MAN ON THE FLOOR. HE SLIPPED AND FELL. HE APPARENTLY DID NOT REALIZE HOW UNSTABLE THE DUCT WAS. HE RECEIVED MASSIVE HEAD INJURIES AND DIED IN EMERGE NCY SURGERY AT 3:15 THAT DAY. THE WEATHER WAS CLEAR AND WARM. THIS INFORAMTION W
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 63 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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