OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14201370
SAFEWAY STORES INC
LANDOVER, MD—
Event description
EMPLOYEE SLIPS OFF LADDER AND INJURES BACK
Investigation abstract
An employee of Safeway Stores Incorporated was climbing down the built-in ladder on top of a milk truck trailer. He slipped on the third or fourth rung, (rungs are 12 in. apart), and fell against a platform railing and onto a platform locat ed next to the truck. Platform was 63 in. high, while the top of the milk traile r was about 44 in. above the platform. As a result, the employee injured his bac k and was hospitalized for treatment of a strain or sprain.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 20
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 25
- Occupation code
- 53
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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