OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #809129
GENERAL INDUSTRIES INC
GOLDSBORO, NC·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from sliding ladder
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was hooking up a chain sling to a steel storage tank that he would b ed. e welding. He was using a metal extension ladder to access the hookup points on the tank. A coworker, who had formed and assembled the pieces for the tank, told Employee #1 to wait until he walked around the tank to hold the ladder before c limbing. Employee #1 did not wait; he climbed the ladder and started attaching t he sling. Employee #1's movement on the ladder caused it to shift and slide on t he tank against which it was resting. Employee #1, who was on the fifth rung, tr ied to jump free of the ladder but his foot went between two rungs. He pitched f orward face-first, striking the ladder and then the concrete floor, and was kill
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 47 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 25
- Occupation code
- 783
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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