OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #693812
P & P CONTRACTORS, INCORPORATED
ARLINGTON, VA·
Event description
Employee killed in fall down air shaft from stepladder
Investigation abstract
At approximately 8:00 a.m. on November 26, 1985, Employee #1 was installing dryw ent. all studs on the west side of a mechanical airshaft that was located on the sout h end of the eleventh floor of an office building under construction. The guardr ails along the west side of the airshaft had been removed to facilitate drywall installation. Employee #1 climbed on a 6-ft wooden stepladder beside the open ai rshaft to put a screw in a stud that was too high for him to reach from the floo r. He apparently lost his balance and fell approximately 96 ft with the ladder d own the airshaft to the second floor. Employee #1 sustained multiple severe inju ries and was killed. The employee had not been using personal fall arrest equipm
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 25
- Occupation code
- 573
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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