OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #676999
HEAD,UNSECURED,STEPLADDER,WORK RULES,LACERATION,FALL,LOST BALANCE,HIP,UNSTABLE POSITION
Event description
Employee injured in fall from unsteady ladder
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a dock-person supervisor, was in a stock room helping to relocate s pare metal display racks onto an elevated shelf that was approximately 10 ft abo ve a concrete floor. As Employee #1 stepped from the shelf to an aluminum stepla dder, he lost his balance and fell to the concrete floor. He was hospitalized wi th lacerations to the head and a sore hip. The accident was caused by an unstead y ladder; the position of the ladder in relation to the shelf; and the lack of a dequate hand holds for mounting and dismounting the ladder.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 285
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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