OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #942524
KEENER ERECTING SERVICE, INC.
FOREST CITY, NC·
Event description
EMPLOYEE INJURED IN FALL FROM ELEVATION
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was climbing an 18-foot vertical column to the roof level. At approx imately 14 ft above the floor slab his foot slipped and he fell to the concrete below sustaining a fractured arm and pelvis. No one actually witnessed the fall, however, employees of both companies saw the employee climbing the column and s poke to him subsequent to the accident.
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 38 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Structural metal workers (597)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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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.