OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #823732
E J WHELAN & CO
ROCKVILLE, MD·
Event description
Employee injured in fall through floor opening
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were cleaning the floor of mechanical penthouse of sc rap lumber and other debris before erecting a scaffold. They picked up a piece o f plywood from the floor. Employee #1 was walking forward with the plywood and t he coworker was walking backward when the employee fell through a 30-in. by 30-i n. floor opening. He fell 13 ft to a concrete floor and was hospitalized with mu ltiple fractures.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 585
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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