OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14193999
ERECTION PROCESS,JOIST,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,STEEL ERECTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,OVERTURN
Event description
Employee injured in fall from steel joist
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was trying to bolt bridging onto a longspan joist after releasing th e chocker from a crane. When he stepped down onto the bottom of the joist, it tu rned over and slipped from the beam. Both Employee #1 and the joist fell 28 ft t o the concrete floor. Employee #1 was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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