OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #735274
CHAIN,GUARDRAIL,UNSECURED,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,ELEVATOR SHAFT
Event description
Employee killed in fall from 13th floor
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was waiting to descend from the thirteenth floor on the personnel ho ist to go to lunch. The employee put her hands in her pockets and leaned against the chain link gate, which was locked with a padlock. The chain link gate serve d as the guard for the open-sided floor when the personnel hoist was at that flo or. For some reason, the gate opened and Employee #1 fell 163 feet to her death.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 F
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 588
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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