OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #704197
PAUL J RACH, INC
MIDDLE RIVER, MD·
Event description
Employee's feet fractured in fall into stairwell opening
Investigation abstract
At approximately 2:00 p.m. on December 9, 1985, Employee #1, a concrete finisher , arrived from another area of the job site to help the foreman. They were setti ng down a chalk line to mark the sidewalk control joint on the exterior side of the building. While the foreman was marking the spot for the chalk line, Employe e #1 began walking to the other end of the sidewalk, approximately 12 ft away. H e walked through a 3 ft wide and 12 ft high wall opening and fell 18 ft 6 in. do wn a stairwell that opened to a concrete basement floor. Employee #1's feet were fractured and he was hospitalized at Franklin Square Hospital.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 43 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 588
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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