OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #709147
CONCRETE FORM WORK,FRACTURE,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,LOST BALANCE
Event description
Employee injured in fall from stairway compartment
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was removing concrete forms from the inside of a stairway compartmen t. He unhooked his safety belt chain from the forms so that he could move. Emplo yee #1 then lost his grip and fell 28 ft to the ground level, which was covered with 3/4 in. plywood. The plywood broke and he fell another 14 ft 3 in. to the c oncrete basement floor, a total distance of 42 ft 3 in. Employee #1 was taken to LDS Hospital, where he was hospitalized with multiple fractures.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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