OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #745083
LOADING,PLATFORM,WORK RULES,LACERATION,FALL,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,CONTUSION,UNSTABLE POSITION
Event description
Employee hospitalized after fall from storage platform
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 disembarked from a forklift onto a storage platform to load furnitur e onto the forklift. While the forklift operator unloaded the furniture in anoth er location, Employee #1 stayed on the storage platform to keep unstable materia l from tumbling over. Falling boxes knocked Employee #1 off the platform and he fell approximately 8 ft 1 in. to the concrete floor. He was hospitalized for tre atment of bruises and lacerations to the body.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 365
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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