OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14289771
HEAD,HARD HAT,JOIST,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT
Event description
Employee killed when struck on head by falling bar joist
Investigation abstract
At approximately 3:30 p.m. on September 21, 1988, Employee #1, a crane operator, ey continued to plumb the column. As the column was being pulled to the south, t he 100 lb bar joist slipped off the support beam at the column north of F9 and t hen slipped off the support beam at column F9. It struck Employee #1 on the head , killing him. The foreman stated that he did not notice that Employee #1 was no t wearing his hard hat. had just finished moving a Grove hydraulic crane to a different location at the work site. He usually operated this crane and kept his hard hat in it. Employee #1 was going to his truck to get something when his foreman requested thathe br ing him a hammer. The foreman and two other iron workers were plumbing the colum ns in the building. One coworker was using a come-along to pull the column plumb . Another was on top of the structural steel watching the approximately 20 ft lo ng bar joist to ensure that it didn't slip off the beam against which the column was being plumbed. Employee #1 brought the foreman the hammer and watched as th
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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