Warehouse Manager Killed in Fall From Wooden Ladder

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• Personal Author:
  Davis, Arthur W. ; Hetzler, William E. ; Hirsh, Gary L.
• Corporate Authors:
  Nebraska Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Nebraska FACE) ; Nebraska. Department of Labor. Safety & Labor Standards Division ; Nebraska Workforce Development
• Description:
  The victim, a 42-year-old female, was killed when the top rung on the wooden ladder she was descending pulled free, causing her to fall approximately 40 feet. The victim and a co-worker climbed a ladder inside a storage warehouse to an overhead walkway to pre-plan some future cleaning work. They proceeded down the walkway for about half the building's length, then went back to the access ladder. The co-worker climbed down first, approximately 20 feet to a small landing platform, then side-stepped to his right to the next ladder that would take him to the warehouse floor. As he did this, the victim started down the upper ladder. As she placed her left hand on the top rung, the left side pulled free from its supports, causing her to fall to the concrete floor below. The co-worker called emergency response. The victim was taken to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead. The Nebraska Workforce Development, Department of Labor's Investigator concluded that to help prevent future similar occurrences, employers should: 1. repair, replace or remove existing ladders, overhead runways and their components. 2. establish a Safety Committee & an Effective Written Injury Prevention Program.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Maintenance Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Women Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Injuries Injury-prevention Ladders Maintenance-workers OSHA Region 7 Protective-measures Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-programs Supervisory-personnel Traumatic-injuries Warehousing Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Falls
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE04NE016
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Nebraska ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027978
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2010-113198
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 04NE016, 2004 Aug ; :1-6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Performing Organization:
  Nebraska Department of Labor
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  48-49 - Transportation and Warehousing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1993/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6ad5682dc6318e0cc13f32f21e7de400d5e39b564e0299e013f7fb25097265edfd12d47b184a1748dad266dd9955df8aadd309c76e00362cdd4a12e76d699e69
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166963/cdc_166963_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 31.62 KB ]