Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14455661

A J MACKAY CO

Event
DEMOLITION, COLLAPSE, UNSECURED, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, UNSTABLE SURFACE, FALL, FALL PROTECTION
NAICS
000000
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#3275492
Employer profile
A J MACKAY CO
Summary number
14455661
Report ID
854910

Event description

Employee injured in 35 ft fall after floor collapses

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was on the fourth level of a building being demolished when a sectio n of the concrete floor he was standing on gave way. Employee #1 fell and struck some mesh on the third level. The mesh bent and he continued falling to the sec ond level, where he hit a piece of plywood covering a hole. The plywood broke an d Employee #1 landed on the concrete floor of the first level. He had fallen abo ut 35 ft in total. He fell approximately 35 ft, sustaining injuries that require d hospitalization.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 25 M

    Nature of injury
    12
    Part of body
    9
    Event type
    5
    Source
    8
    Occupation code
    869
    Human factor
    4
    Environmental factor
    6
    Task assigned
    1

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