OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #970962
FRACTURE,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,CONCUSSION,KIDNEY,ELEVATED WORK PLAT,VERTEBRA,CONTUSION,INATTENTION,OVERTURN
Event description
Employee injured when elevated work platform overturns
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was moving an Economy Cab XT self-propelled elevated work platform w hen a wheel ran into a 5-ft by 7-ft by 6-in.-deep hole in the concrete. The mach ine became unbalanced and tipped over. The employee rode the work platform down from a height of about 12 ft, striking his back on the handrail and his head on a 2-in. by 12-in. plank that lay on the floor. He was hospitalized with a cracke d vertebrae, a bruised kidney, and a concussion.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 576
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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