OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #891218
A TOUCH OF CLASS
ROCKVILLE, MD·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from ladder
Investigation abstract
After some window frames had been painted, Employee #1 had to scrape and clean t he glass. He fell from a 24-ft-long portable metal ladder. He was hospitalized f or injuries sustained in the fall.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 27 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- BACK (3)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- LADDER (25)
- Occupation
- Painters, construction and maintenance (579)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.