OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #887968
UNSECURED,LADDER,FALL
Event description
EMPLOYEE INJURED IN FALL FROM JOB MADE LADDER
Investigation abstract
At approximately 8:30 a.m. on July 10, 1989, Employee #1 was doing formwork in c larifier number 1. Employee #1 left his workstation and started to climb out of the clarifier on an unsecured job made ladder. The ladder slipped and Employee # 1 lost his footing, fell over the side of the wall into the clarifier and landed on a concrete slab approx 14 .5 ft below. Guardrails were not installed to prev ent a fall at the edge of the clarifier wall. Employee #1 was transported by hel icopter to a local shock-trauma center. He received multiple injuries to his ent ire body.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 43 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 25
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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