OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #780189
CHEST,FRACTURE,UNSECURED,STEPLADDER,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,DESCENDING,FALL,ARM,FOOT
Event description
Employee suffers multiple injuries in fall from ladder
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was descending from the second floor to the first floor. A 16 foot s tepladder was stored leaning against the block wall just below the hole that acc ommodates the fireman's pole. Before the installation of a stairway, this was th e means of ascending and descending to and from the second level. Employee #1 st epped on the ladder, but it fell from under him, and he fell 15 feet to the conc rete floor. Employee #1 suffered multiple fractures to his left arm, fractures o f the second digit on his right foot, torn chest cartilage, and a laceration on the index finger of his right hand.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 25
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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