OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #975672
RON STONER D B A BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES
FRANKLIN, IN·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED BY FALL FROM EXTENSION LADDER
Investigation abstract
At 10:30 a.m. on March 28, 1989, Employee #1 was reattaching a piece of aluminum siding on a three story residence approximately 22 feet up on a wooden 24 foot extension ladder. Another employee was holding and supporting the ladder at its base. A third employee was supervising the operation. Employee #1 was tacking th e siding in place when he fell from the ladder, landing approximately one foot t o the right of the base of the ladder on a concrete porch. He sustained a fractu red skull, was taken to the hospital, and died the next day.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 33 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- BODILY MOTION (5)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- 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.