OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #606905
LITHONIA LIGHTING
COCHRAN, GA·
Event description
Employee dies following heel surgery
Investigation abstract
At 11:15 p.m. on March 6, 1989, Employee #1 was cleaning up metal scrap by his p #1's injury. ress. The scrap was 22 gauge, approximately 2 in. wide by 2 ft long. Although Em ployee #1 was wearing leather work shoes, a piece of scrap metal struck his righ t ankle, severing the Achilles tendon. An operation was performed at 5:00 p.m. o n March 7, 1989. Employee #1 died at 12:15 a.m. on March 8, 1989. An autopsy was performed, and the death certificate states the cause of death as asphyxiation due to esophageal intubation. The ankle injury was not life-threatening. The com pany allows any type of leather shoe. A 5(a)(l) letter recommends excluding leat her tennis shoes; however, this recommendation would not have prevented Employee
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 22 Male
- Nature of injury
- Cut/Laceration (7)
- Part of body
- FOOT/ANKLE (11)
- Accident type
- STRUCK AGAINST (6)
- Source of injury
- METAL PRODUCTS (28)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- OTHER (14)
- Environmental factor
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQUIP./METHOD (8)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.