OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #722439
PIELET BROTHERS SCRAP & IRON & METAL LTD
SUMMIT, IL·
Event description
Employee without fall protection dies in fall from forklift
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was installing a new screening plant, working on shaken screen. He w as using a forklift for a work platform and was without fall protection. Employe e #1 fell approximately 8 ft and fractured his skull. He died. Employee #1 could have used another means of access to the work area.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 42 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.