OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691469
FRACTURE,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee sustains multiple fractures in 37 ft fall
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was welding sheet metal in place in a repetitious motion. When he re ached the end of the building he walked off it and fell 37 ft to the ground. He was hospitalized with multiple fractures.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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