OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #810473
CONCRETE FORM WORK,FRACTURE,DISMANTLING,UNSECURED,SAFETY BELT,CONSTRUCTION,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,LANYARD,FALL,HIP
Event description
Employee injured in fall while removing formwork
Investigation abstract
At approximately 1:45 p.m. on January 26, 1989, Employee #1 was removing Symons not on site at the time of the accident. forms from the side wall of stairwell #5 at 22 1/2 ft high. Employee #1, trained in its proper use, was wearing a safety belt with lanyard. A tool referred to a s a wall hook was also attached to the safety belt by two chains. The wall hook attaches to the form to allow employees the use of both hands to disassemble for ms. Employee #1 chose not to connect his safety belt to a secure anchor but inst ead used only the wall hook to hold him to the forms. The hook failed either by slipping, straightening, or breaking (the hook was lost by the time of the inves tigation). Employee #1 fell, breaking his hip in two places. His supervisor was
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 43 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 14
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 34
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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