OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #751172
G & G INCORPORATED
SANTA MONICA, CA·
Event description
Employee killed in fall to sidewalk planter box
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were unloading pipe bundles from a truck to a forklif t on the first floor, prying the bundles with 2 by 4s. After moving the second o f three bundles, the coworker checked on Employee #1 and saw him falling over th e side. The employee landed in a sidewalk planter box and was killed. The cowork er could not see how Employee #1 lost his balance and fell because his line of s ight was blocked by the floor and pipe bundles. Safety belts were not used and g uardrails had not been installed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- BUILDINGS/STRUCTURES (8)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- INSUF/LACK/PROTCV WRK CLTHG/EQUIP (20)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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.