OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14297816
HDO PRODUCTIONS, INC.
ANNAPOLIS, MD·
Event description
Employee injured when struck by tent pole
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were erecting a 140-ft by 100-ft push-pole roped tent m to the ground. He sustained lacerations, contusions, and fractures, for which he was hospitalized. The coworker estimated that he had overseen the erection of some 1,000 steel quarter poles and had never seen this happen. Employee #1 had been with the company about 2 years. , placing the last of twenty 2.5-in.-diameter by 21-ft-long steel quarter poles. The coworker was driving a fork truck to move the bottom of the pole, and Emplo yee #1 was looking for a previous stake hole created when the company had previo usly placed a tent at this location. They staked and lashed the bottoms of poles , which, like about 50 percent of steel quarter poles, were in two parts joined together. The coworker pushed the bottom toward the corner. The location had bee n reached, but the pole snapped at the coupling (4 to 5 ft from the bottom) and fractured the corner, striking Employee #1 in the face and chest and knocking hi
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 889
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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