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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691469

FRACTURE,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,INATTENTION

Event
FRACTURE,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,INATTENTION
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
691469
Report ID
854910

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

  1. #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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