OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #970483
DAM,ROPE,WORK RULES,DESCENDING,STEEP GRADE,FALL
Event description
Employee injured after tying off to rope with excess slack
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was checking rock bolts on the keyway of a dam under construction. W hile descending the bank on a safety rope, the employee went to change from one rope to another rope. There was 50 feet of slack in the second rope. Employee #1 tied to the second rope and backed off the hillside. He slid 50 feet downhill t o a landing. He was taken to Wasatch County Hospital and admitted.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 51 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 215
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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