OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691782
K & P CONSTRUCTION INC.
WEST JORDAN, UT·
Event description
Employee fractures wrist in 25 ft fall down stairwell
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was on the third floor of a building under construction. He was stan ding between two wall steels on 18 in. centers, trying to pry loose the bond bea m with a claw hammer to make room for a metal vertical wall steel. While he was leaning over the edge of the stairwell and applying pressure to the hammer, the beam suddenly came loose and knocked Employee #1 off balance. He fell approximat ely 25 ft between the two vertical steels, landing in the basement. Employee #1 was hospitalized for treatment of a fractured wrist.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 24
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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