OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #878306
STEPLADDER,CONSTRUCTION,BACK,ENTANGLED,CONTUSION,LEG
Event description
EMPLOYEE INJURED IN FALL FROM WOODEN STEPLADDER
Investigation abstract
On November 17, 1989, Employee #1 had been instructed to install a drywall on th the elevator shaft. Employee #1 sustained bruises to his back and legs and was transported to the hospital. No safety violations could be found as a cause of t he accident. e first-floor lobby using an 8-ft wooden stepladder with seven steps. The ladder was new and had been borrowed from another contractor. In five-minute intervals , two other employees witnessed Employee #1 working on the ladder on the second or third step from the floor. The coworkers had told Employee #1 that it was lun chtime. Employee #1 was undoing the screws from the ladder. The cord was tied ar ound one of the ladder's sides. A few minutes later, Employee #1 fell with the l adder to the concrete lobby floor. An electrician who heard the fall ran up to E mployee #1 and found him entangled in the ladder, lying on the concrete floor by
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 25
- Occupation code
- 573
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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