OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14549893
COMMERCIAL COATINGS INC
MILAN, TN—
Event description
Employee injured in fall when bosun's chair workline fails
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was sandblasting the surface of a 500,000 gallon water tank from a b oatswain's chair. He was holding onto the nozzle of the rubber sandblasting hose , which was tied to the guardrail when the workline attached to the rolling bloc k, which held the boatswain's chair, became unfastened. Employee #1 fell approxi mately 6 ft, struck the middle of his back against the guardrail of a catwalk, a nd went flying over the rail. The hose stretched and stopped his fall about 40 f t from the ground, then broke. Employee #1 clutched a grabline and rode it to th e ground, striking the ground with his side.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 556
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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