OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #777748
WORK RULES,WELDER,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,UNGUARDED,POOR VISIBILITY
Event description
Employee injured in fall after walking off edge
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was plug welding metal decking to bar joists. With his welding hood down, he walked off the unguarded edge, landing flat on the concrete slab. He wa s hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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