OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #968370
WESTERN STATES STEEL SYSTEM
LAS VEGAS, NV·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from structural steel while decking
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working on structural steel, approximately 19 ft 6 in. above gro und. He was helping set aluminum decking when he apparently tripped and fell to the ground. Employee #1 sustained severe head injuries but regained consciousnes s.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 21 Male
- Nature of injury
- Concussion (6)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- BODILY MOTION (5)
- 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)
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.