OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14257463
ERECTION PROCESS,STAIR,BUILDING,CONSTRUCTION,STEEL ERECTION,FALL
Event description
FALL FROM AND STRUCK BY STEEL STAIR RISER SECTION
Investigation abstract
THE DECEASED WAS THE FOREMAN OF A PLUMBING CREW INSTALLING PLUMBING IN A NEW HER OUT OF PLACE. ON THE FINAL TRIP UP THE STAIRWAY THE RISER APPARENTLY SHIFTED,TH ROWING THE DECEASED TO THE STAIRWAY FLOOR APPROXIMATEY FOURTEEN FEET BELOW. THE RISER DISLODGED AND FELL, STRIKING THE DECEASED IN THE HEAD FATALLY WOUNDING HIM . THE RISER SECTION WEIGHED APPROXIMATELY 300 POUNDS. TZ RENTAL CAR FACILITY AT RALEIGH-DURHAM AIRPORT. ANOTH WORK WHICH INCLUDED THE INSTALLATION OF STEEL STAIRWAYS ON EITHERSIDE OF THE BUILDING. ON THE DATE OF TH E EVENT, 10/2/84, THE FIRM HAD PLACED THE FINAL RISER SECTION IN PLACE IN EACH S TAIRWAY, PREPARATORY TO WELDING FROM IN PLACE. BARRIERS CONSISTING OF 2"X4" WOOD EN STOCK WERE PLACED ACROSS THE DOORWAYS, AND ALL EMPLOYEES WERE WARNED NOT TO U SE THE STAIRWAYS. A LADDER WAS IN PLACE FOR ACCESS TO THE FACILITY. THE PLUMBING FOREMAN APPARENTLY DISREGARDED THE BARRIERS AND WARNINGS AND USED THE STAIRWAYS SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE DAY. THIS APPARENTLY CRUSED THE UNWELDED RISER TO SLIP
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 557
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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