Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 676999 - Employee injured in fall from unsteady ladder

Accident Summary Nr: 676999 -- Report ID: 1054113 -- Event Date: 02/05/1990
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
2409233	02/05/1990	5311	0	Target Stores Inc

Abstract: Employee #1, a dock-person supervisor, was in a stock room helping to relocate spare metal display racks onto an elevated shelf that was approximately 10 ft above a concrete floor. As Employee #1 stepped from the shelf to an aluminum stepladder, he lost his balance and fell to the concrete floor. He was hospitalized with lacerations to the head and a sore hip. The accident was caused by an unsteady ladder; the position of the ladder in relation to the shelf; and the lack of adequate hand holds for mounting and dismounting the ladder.

Keywords: HEAD, UNSECURED, STEPLADDER, WORK RULES, LACERATION, FALL, LOST BALANCE, HIP, UNSTABLE POSITION

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	2409233			Hospitalized injury	Cut/Laceration	Sales support occupations, n.e.c.

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