OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #818369
GAMEZ SERVICES INC.
MIAMI, FL·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED IN FALL TO CONCRETE SLAB
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 working on a curved concrete boom lost his balance and fell 20 ft to the concrete slab and was killed, when the rachet handle extension broke or dis engaged. The worksite was without fall protection or guardrails.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- INSUFF/LACK/WRITN WRK PRAC PROG. (18)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.