OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #848457
BLOOM LOHRE PAINTING
CHICAGO, IL·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED IN FALL FROM PLANK
Investigation abstract
The employee was working on a plank 18 feet above ground level. One end of the p lank was resting on a 6 ft wooden step ladder and the other end on a 20 ft woode n extension ladder propped against the wall. The employee fell from this makeshi ft scaffold and his head struck a window ledge during the fall.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 50 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 25
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 15
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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