OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #751172
GUARDRAIL,WORK RULES,SAFETY BELT,STRUCK AGAINST,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,OFF LOADING,ELEVATED WORK PLAT,LOST BALANCE
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 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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