OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221476856

INTERIOR SPECIALISTS, INC.

STATE COLLEGE, PA— 2022-07-07T00:00:00

Event: Airline, Blunt force trauma, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Head, Struck Against, Window
NAICS: 238910
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346066640
Employer profile: INTERIOR SPECIALISTS, INC.
Summary number: 221476856
Report ID: 0316700
Project type: D
Construction end-use: H

Event description

Employee is killed in fall from fifth story window

Investigation abstract

At 4:30 p.m. on July 7, 2022, an employee had just finished making 33.5 inch vertical cuts at each end of an 84-inch wide window sill. The employee was leaning out the window, trying to throw an airline to a coworker, when the ledge he had just cut fell, and he toppled out of the fifth story window, striking his head on the way down before landing in the debris below. The employee died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 42 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
869

Fall distance
45

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