OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #777821
CHEST,JOIST,WORK RULES,TRIPPED,LIGHTING,FALL,FLOOR OPENING,UNGUARDED,POOR VISIBILITY
Event description
Employee injured in fall into floor opening
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was in a dark room looking for a particular air filter when he stepp ed behind a stack of boxes to look for numbers that were printed on the back of the boxes. He stepped into a 2 ft square floor opening with his right foot, and fell across a floor joist. He sustained chest injuries but was not hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 51 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 4
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 806
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 14
- Task assigned
- 1
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