OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #978908
PORTABLE POWER TOOL,FRACTURE,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,NOSE,STRUCK BY,FACE
Event description
Employee injured when struck in face by post tension machine
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was straddling a 10 in., 80 ft high wall. He was struck in the face by a hand-held post tension machine and suffered a fractured nose.
Victims (3)
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 9
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 21
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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#982 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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