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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #803163

WORK RULES,SLIP,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,CONTUSION

Event
WORK RULES,SLIP,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,CONTUSION
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
803163
Report ID
257230

Event description

Employee killed in fall from steel beam

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was on a piece of staging or scaffold when he slipped and fell 35 to 40 ft onto steel beams on the ground. He suffered multiple contusions and fract ures to his head and to other parts of his body. He was attended by the air resc ue squad and transported to the Federico Trilla de Carolina Hospital, where he w as pronounced dead.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 25 M

    Nature of injury
    12
    Part of body
    4
    Event type
    5
    Source
    8
    Occupation code
    597
    Human factor
    13
    Environmental factor
    13
    Task assigned
    1

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