OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #709139
WASATCH ELECTRIC CO./DYNALECTRIC
SALT LAKE CITY, UT·
Event description
Employee injured in fall through floor opening
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was helping unload a trailer that was parked on the eastern side of a building. He was going to lower the material from the first floor level to the basement through an 8 ft long by 44 in. wide hole in the floor that was covered with a piece of plywood. When Employee #1 tried to lift the plywood, he fell 14 ft through the hole to the concrete floor in the basement. He was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 57
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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