OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14198386
GA&FC WAGMAN INCORPORATED
CAMBRIDGE, MD·
Event description
EMPLOYEE FALLS THROUGH BRIDGE DECK AND DROWNS
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 fell from a bridge through a corrugated metal deck pan to the river of his injuries. The pan was not secured against accidental displacement or othe rwise guarded by standard railing. Employee #1 had worked for the employer as a carpenter in bridge construction for seven years. For one year Employee #1 worke d as a carpenter group leader. Employee #1 was wearing a hard hat and a buoyant work vest when he fell. below where he drowned. Employee #1 was walking on a bridge deck that consisted of metal corrugated deck pans placed for concrete form work supported by precast concrete girders. Employee #1 stepped onto a 2-foot-8-inch-wide by 6-foot-9.5-i nch-long deck pan. The deck pan had been previously in position and was removed then replaced in the same position but not secured. The deck pan became displace d and Employee #1 fell through the opening in the deck to the river approximatel y 40 feet below. Employee #1 struck the concrete low water strut located 37 feet below. Employee #1 suffered a fractured neck and skull and drowned as a result
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 41
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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