OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14218978
COASTAL CONCRETE CORPORATION
LA PORTE, TX·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN CRUSHED BY CONCRETE PANELS
Investigation abstract
A highway construction crew was completing the replacement of an old wooden brid ge with a pre-cast box culvert. A crew set the pre-cast concrete headwall on the culvert and a crane placed two pre-cast concrete panels as part of the new brid ge. Neither the construction crew nor the crane crew supported the culvert or th e pre-cast concrete panels. The employee was attempting to level the concrete pa nels. The panels collapsed and fell on the employee, crushing his head and killi ng him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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