OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #976555
EJECTED,WORK RULES,SAFETY BELT,CONSTRUCTION,BRICK,LANYARD,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,AERIAL LIFT
Event description
Employee dies in fall from articulating lift basket
Investigation abstract
On July 6, 1989, Employee #1 was raised in a fully extended JLG 60HT articulatin g boom lift to retrieve a bucket of mud from the swing stage. The boom was at a 30 degree angle. When he moved the JLG forward Employee #1 ran over some bricks and the boom flexed, throwing him from the basket. Employee #1 fell 37 ft to a c oncrete sidewalk and chain link fence and was killed. He was not wearing a safet y belt and lanyard.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 46 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
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