OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #660621
WATER TOWER,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,CATWALK,FALL,FALL PROTECTION
Event description
Employee dies in fall from water tower catwalk
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing 150 ft high on a catwalk prying sections away from a wa ter tower while a coworker was cutting steel off the tower. A section of the cat walk gave way and Employee #1 fell through the opening to the ground. He died in stantly.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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