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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14457170

CECO INDUSTRIES

Event
CONCRETE FORM WORK,INSTALLING,WORK RULES,STRUCK AGAINST,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,SHORING,LOST BALANCE,UNSTABLE POSITION
NAICS
000000
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#3280807
Employer profile
CECO INDUSTRIES
Summary number
14457170
Report ID
854910

Event description

Employee injured in fall from formwork

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was installing flat slab support form work when a vertical 4 by 4 pi ece of shoring tilted, allowing the stringer to move sideways. A crosspiece 4 by 4 which he was trying to secure then slipped off the stringer. Employee #1 had one foot on this piece and lost his balance, falling 14 ft to the concrete floor . He struck his head against a crosspiece during the fall.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 37 M

    Nature of injury
    12
    Part of body
    3
    Event type
    5
    Source
    8
    Occupation code
    567
    Human factor
    4
    Environmental factor
    8
    Task assigned
    1

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