A plant worker climbed eight feet up a steel storage rack structure to retrieve material from a top shelf. He fell to the concrete floor and died. The workplace did not have the proper equipment to help workers remove items from the storage racks. Never use a steel rack structure as a ladder for climbing. The lack of hand- and footholds invites a fall, and it's possible to cause the rack to tip over or collapse this way. An ordinary ladder would not have been a safe solution either, because the worker would not have been able to use both hands […]
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