OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #818062
CONCRETE FORM WORK,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,LOST BALANCE
Event description
Employee killed in nineteen story fall after losing balance
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was removing a 4 ft by 8 ft piece of plywood along the edge of a for m. As the plywood came down, Employee #1 stepped on the plywood and started to p ick it up. But he lost his balance and fell to his death from the nineteenth flo or.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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