OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14289631
AMERICAN RIGGING & MILLWRIGHT SERVICES, INC.
RICHMOND, VA·
Event description
Employee killed in fall down air shaft
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was on a temporary work platform, waiting for Employee #2 to cut loo se a piece of 4 in. Schedule 40 steel pipe and to lower it to him for removal fr om an air shaft. Without realizing it, Employee #2 cut loose the only remaining attachment, causing the pipe to fall and strike the work platform. The platform dislodged and fell down the shaft. As Employee #1 was exiting the shaft, he stoo d on a walkboard that had also been partially dislodged. Both he and the board f ell 121 ft down the shaft to a concrete floor. Employee #1 was killed instantly upon impact. Employee #2 was injured but he did not require hospitalization.
Victims (3)
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#1 Fatality Age 41 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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