OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #970970
STANCO INC
MAGNA, UT·
Event description
EMPLOYEE DIES AFTER FALL FROM PLATFORM
Investigation abstract
At about 1:30 a.m. Employee #1 working for a subcontractor at the Kennecott Smel as wearing to protect him from toxic dust. He had on disposable coveralls, rubbe r boots and gloves taped to the coveralls and a full face dual cartridge respira tor. Darkness may be also a contributing factor. ter when he fell approximately 35 ft while trying to step from one platform to a nother by going over the top of the guardrails. The platforms were about 2 ft ap art with one beam 3 ft below the other. Employee #1 stepped on the guardrail of the upper platform and was stepping down on the guardrail of the lower platform when he slipped and fell to the ground below. He struck his head and shoulder on a horizontal angle brace about 7 ft above ground level before striking the grou nd. Employee #1 suffered severe head injuries that led to his death 3 days later . Contributing factors may have been the personal protective equipment that he w
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 18 Male
- Nature of injury
- Concussion (6)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- BODILY MOTION (5)
- Occupation
- Construction laborers (869)
- 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.