OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #777805
SMITHS MANAGEMENT CORP
LAYTON, UT·
Event description
Employee suffers multiple fractures in fall from storage bin
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating a Courier automated storage retrieval system preparing for a grocery shipment. A pallet in the storage bins was protruding and needed to be pushed back into place because it was preventing the Courier system from o perating properly. Employee #1 climbed a fixed ladder to an upper platform on th e Courier but, because he was still below the protruding pallet, he left the pla tform to climb further up the shelf or bin structure to the pallet. Employee #1 was pushing the protruding pallet with his foot when a board on the pallet broke , causing Employee #1 to fall approximately 25 ft onto the concrete floor. Suffe ring multiple fractures, Employee #1 was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 364
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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