OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14232185
HIGH WIND,COLLAPSE,BUILDING COLLAPSE,CONSTRUCTION
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 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 39 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 14
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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#3 Hospitalized Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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