OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14456560
COTTONWOOD CONCRETE INC
SALT LAKE CITY, UT—
Event description
Employee injured in fall while removing wall forms
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was stripping poured wall forms. To dismantle the vertical staff bac ks, he began to remove the attaching brackets, starting at the bottom. When only two backs remained, Employee #1 positioned himself by hooking his safety lanyar d between them. As he removed the lower bracket, the 2 by 4 to which he was atta ched swung out, dropping him 14 ft 3 in. onto a metal deck.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 46 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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