OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #709188
DECKING,FRACTURE,COLLAPSE,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,FALL,LEG
Event description
Employee fractures leg in fall when decking collapses
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was riding a work platform down. As the platform passed a level, the employee jumped from the platform to the level, which was covered with metal de cking. When he landed on the decking, it bent and the employee and the decking f ell 16 feet to the ground. He was taken to the hospital with a fractured right l eg.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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