OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14209126
FRACTURE,TRUSS,ROOF,COLLAPSE,BRACING,ELBOW
Event description
Employee injured by falling roof trusses
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was injured when he was struck by falling trusses. While other emplo yees were setting the roof trusses, they used inadequate bracing, which resulted in the truss collapse. Employee #1 had a crushed right elbow as a result.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 7
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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