OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14445431
MINNESOTA BUILDING CENTER
HARTLAND, MN—
Event description
FALL THROUGH FLOOR OPENING TO CONCRETE
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1 HAD CLIMBED A LADDER UP TO A PLATFORM (12' X 66' X 8") ABOVE THE CON RDING TO THE OLMSTEAD COUNTY CORONER. CRETE FLOOR. SOME WOODEN PREHUNG DOORS WERE TO BE HANDED UP TO HIM. ON THE FAR S IDE OF THE 12' WIDE PLATFORM WAS A FLOOR OPENING FOR SPIRAL STAIRS, 4' WIDE X 78 " LONG. THE OPENING HAD BEEN LEFT UNCOVERED FROM THE PREVIOUS DAYS WORK. EMPLOYE E #1 HAD JUST RECEIVED AND SET THE PREHUNG DOOR DOWN ON THE PLATFORM, WHEN HE AP PARENTLY TURNED AND STEPPED INTO THE FLOOR OPENING. HE LANDED ON HIS HANDS AND F ACE, STRIKING HIS FOREHEAD. CO-WORKERS CAME TO HIS AID AND CALLED AN AMBULANCE. IT WAS APPARENT HIS WRISTS WERE BROKEN , AND BLOOD WAS COMING FROM HIS NOSTRILS. HE DIED TWO DAYS LATER AS A RESULT OF COMPLICATIONS FROM A SKULL FRACTURE, ACCO
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 57 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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