OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #739722
MECHANICAL INSULATION SERVICES, INC.
CONSTANCE, KY·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from steel beam
Investigation abstract
At approximately 7:40 a.m. on March 29, 1989, Employee #1 entered the area above the dropped ceiling in stairwell #13. The space above the dropped ceiling resem bled a tunnel and measured approximately 4 ft 9 in. wide by 6 ft 3 in. high by 3 0 ft long. The area in which the employee gained access is approximately 9 ft 6 in. from the top of the stairway. Employee #1 was sealing the pipes into the wal ls and crawling on an 8 in. wide steel beam that ran the length of the stairwell . When he reached the area above the stairwell's bottom entrance, he lost his fo oting and fell approximately 26 ft to the floor. He broke his right heel, right femur, lower arm, and back.
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 29 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Insulation Workers (593)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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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.