OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14517379
HILTON DEVELOPMENT CO. INC
PANAMA CITY, FL—
Event description
Employee killed in fall from open-sided floor
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, age 20, and coworkers were preparing to move two flying forms from the 11th to the 12th floor. The guardrails had just been taken down so the forms could be moved and pulled out, and one of the forms had been dropped in prepara tion for pulling it out. Employee #1 was cleaning up around the columns with a s craper and hammer when he stepped or fell from the open-sided floor. He fell app roximately 13 levels, striking a projecting scaffold at the 5th level and then l anding on a plywood-covered form on the ground. Employee #1 suffered extensive t raumatic injuries and was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 2
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