OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #686634
FRACTURE,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,LADDER,CONSTRUCTION,FALL
Event description
Employee injured in fall from ladder
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working from a 16 ft ladder 9 ft above the ground, tightening bo lts on the frame of a manlift north of a building under construction. The floor of the building was 20 ft below the surface of the ground. The ladder twisted to the south and Employee #1 fell 29 ft over a wall to the ground. He was hospital ized with multiple fractures.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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