OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #888537
JOHN L. BISNETT SR & BROTHER
POTOMAC, MD·
Event description
Employee killed in fall through floor opening
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 had been working all day at the construction site for a single famil y house. He was stacking framing lumber adjacent to a 10 ft 11 in. by 6 ft 5 in. floor opening for a stairway to the basement. He fell 10 ft 3 in. through the u nguarded opening to the concrete basement floor. He sustained head and internal injuries, and was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 71 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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