OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #707752
SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL CENTER
SYKESVILLE, MD·
Event description
Employee killed in fall through unguarded floor opening
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was stacking 4 ft by 8 ft by 1/2 in. plywood sheets on the second fl oor of townhouse unit #10. He pulled up the sheets handed to him by a coworker a nd, while walking backward, slid one end of the sheet across the deck. He sudden ly went head first through an unguarded floor opening and fell 17 ft to a concre te basement floor. Employee #1 died of massive head injuries.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 21 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 15
- Task assigned
- 2
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