OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #734293
GENERAL PIPING, INC.
GEORGETOWN, SC·
Event description
EMPLOYEE FELL FROM LADDER, SUFFERED CARDIOGENIC SHOCK
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1, A PIPEFITTER, CLIMBED A LADDER TO HANG A WATER PIPE. WHEN HE REACHE D THE WORK AREA HE COMPLAINED OF SHORTNESS OF BREATH TO HIS CO-WORKERS. THE WORK AREA WAS 11 FEET, 6 INCHES ABOVE THE GROUND. THE WORKERS WERE ON THE PIPE BAY, NEAR THE OFFICE TRAILER, INSTALLING WATER PIPE. NO EQUIPMENT WAS INVOLVED. CO-WO RKERS TOLD EMPLOYEE #1 TO SIT DOWN AND REST WHILE THEY MADE A WELD. WHEN THEY LO OKED BACK AT EMPLOYEE #1, HE HAD FALLEN, STRIKING THE SCAFFOLD UNDER THE WORKERS , THEN LANDING HEAD FIRST ON THE GROUND. HE DIED FROM A CARDIOGENIC SHOCK. EMPLO YEE #1 AND HIS CO-WORKERS WERE NOT TIED OFF OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED FROM FALLING.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 57 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 585
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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