Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221576101

SCHAEFER'S ACE HARDWARE

Event
Blunt force trauma, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Head, Lost Control, Stair
NAICS
444130
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#346798572
Employer profile
SCHAEFER'S ACE HARDWARE
Summary number
221576101
Report ID
0214700

Event description

Employee is killed in fall down stairs

Investigation abstract

At 12:00 p.m. on June 21, 2023, an employee was using a hand truck to carry 154-pound box down a flight of stairs. The employee may have partially lost control of the hand truck, and the employee fell down approximately five stairs to the floor below. The employee was killed due to a head injury.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 80 M

    Event type
    5
    Occupation code
    268

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