OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #768572
LTV AEROSPACE & DEFENSE COMPANY
GRAND PRAIRIE, TX·
Event description
Employee dies of natural causes
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were assigned to change the electric condenser fan mo tural causes. tor on a multi-fan air conditioning unit. He was standing on the fourth or fifth step of a 6 ft wooden stepladder and was reaching over the 8 ft high side of th e condensing unit to remove the motor. His coworker was on top of the condensing unit, working on another motor. He heard Employee #1 scream or yell, and turned around to see him began to fall backward. The coworker grabbed his arms to hold him, but the employee fell back on the roof and died. The fuses had been pulled on both motors, and the coworker felt no shock. An autopsy showed no sign of el ectric shock or head injury. The conditions indicate that Employee #1 died of na
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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