OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14195028
PITT-DES MOINES, INC
BALTIMORE, MD·
Event description
EMPLOYEES STRUCK BY FALLING STEEL GIRDER
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEES #1 AND #2 HAD JUST USED A 15 TON WHITING OVERHEAD CRANE TO MOVE A STEE AND ABRASIONS ON HIS BODY. EMPLOYEE #2 DISLOCATED 12 BONES IN HIS FOOT. BOTH EM PLOYEES WERE WEARING HARD HATS, SAFETY GLASSES, WORK GLOVES AND STEEL-TOED SHOES . L GIRDER (4 FEET HIGH AND 70 FEET LONG, WEIGHING BETWEEN 5 AND 8 TONS) FROM A PA INTING AREA TO A GIRDER STORAGE AREA. THE GIRDER WAS PLACED ON EDGE BETWEEN TWO OTHER GIRDERS ALREADY IN STORAGE. EMPLOYEE #1 THEN WALKED TO THE MIDDLE OF THE G IRDER TO DISCONNECT THE GIRDER HOOKS USED TO RIG FOR THE LIFT. EMPLOYEE #1 SPREA D THE HOOKS AND SIGNALED THE CRANE OPERATOR TO HOIST THE HOOKS CLEAR OF THE GIRD ER. WHEN THE OPERATOR LIFTED THE HOOKS, THE HOOK FARTHEST FROM EMPLOYEE #1 CAUGH T THE GIRDER EDGE AND CAUSED IT TO TIP TOWARDS BOTH EMPLOYEES. THE GIRDER FELL A GAINST THE ADJACENT GIRDER AND TRAPPED EMPLOYEE #1. EMPLOYEE #1 RECEIVED BRUISES
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 633
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 9
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 655
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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