OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #779454
LIFELINE,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,WALKING ON BEAM
Event description
Employee injured in 14 ft fall from steel beam
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was walking column to column on a steel beam. He was wearing a safet y belt and lanyard. Although the employer supplied a lifeline from column to col umn, the employee chose not to hook up to the lifeline and fell 14 feet to the g round. He was hospitalized for treatment of minor injuries.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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