OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14232185
JOE ROCZNIAK
LEWISBURG, WV·
Event description
THREE EMPLOYEES STRUCK BY COLLAPSING BUILDING - ONE FATALITY
Investigation abstract
At approximately 2 p.m. on April 25, 1989, three employees were erecting a two-s tory single family home. It began to rain the employees moved to shelter to wait out the rain, but the intensity of the storm and the force of the wind increase d. All three employees left the second floor and had just arrived on the first f loor when the force of the wind, estimated to be 75 mph, shifted the first floor walls stud from front to rear collapsing the second floor onto the employees. E mployee #1 was killed, and Employees #2 and #3 were hospitalized for fractures.
Victims (3)
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#1 Fatality Age 46 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- BUILDINGS/STRUCTURES (8)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- OTHER (14)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
-
#2 Hospitalized Age 39 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HIP(S) (14)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- BUILDINGS/STRUCTURES (8)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- OTHER (14)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
-
#3 Hospitalized Age 28 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- FOOT/ANKLE (11)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- BUILDINGS/STRUCTURES (8)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- OTHER (14)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.