OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691626
UNITED CONCERTS INC.
SNYDERVILLE, UT·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from scissor lift
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and coworkers were dismantling and removing a concert sound system. The speaker units were being loaded from an elevated platform onto a scissor lif t. Employee #1 stepped backward and fell through an open railing on the elevated platform onto a cement walkway. He sustained massive head injuries and died the next day.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 22
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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