OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #890640
PORTABLE POWER TOOL,UNCONSCIOUSNESS,NAIL,WORK RULES,SAFETY BELT,CONSTRUCTION,LANYARD,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,OPEN-SIDED FLOOR
Event description
Employee killed in fall from open-sided floor
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was using a pneumatic nailer to fasten the bottom of 2 by 6 wooden s y 4 lumber on the ground and was killed. Neither Employee #1 nor the foreman was wearing a safety belt or was attached to a lifeline. tuds to the outside wall of a building under construction. It was his third day on the job. His foreman was standing on a ladder above him, nailing the tops of the studs by hand. As Employee #1 attempted to nail a stud, the nose of the nail er came in contact with his left knee and a 3 in. long 16D nail was driven into his leg. His foreman was unable to extract the nail with his claw hammer, and le ft the employee standing adjacent to an open-sided floor to get a pair of pliers . As the foreman was returning, Employee #1 either lost consciousness or went in to shock and fell 24 ft to the ground. He struck his head against a stack of 2 b
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 569
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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