OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #733865
PACIFICORP
POINT OF ROCKS, WY·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED IN FALL THROUGH CATWALK LADDER OPENING
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was on a catwalk 46 meters above the floor of a power plant stack. H e was working alone, rewiring the controls for an elevator. He apparently steppe d through an opening in the catwalk, fell to the ground, and was killed. The ope ning was used as a ladderway. The safety chains on both sides of the ladderway h ad been removed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 543
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 14
- Task assigned
- 1
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