OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14305510
STEEL ENGINEERING AND ERECTION INC
FORT WAINWRIGHT, AK·
Event description
Employee injured in fall with collapsing bar joist
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker set a bar joist at the 20 foot level above a concrete nook, but did not bridge or secure it. They then set decking along the edges an d on the center of the unsecured bar joist. When a Grove PT 660 30-ton crane lan ded a 4,000 lb load of angle iron bridging on the center span of the decking, th e unsecured bar joist rolled and collapsed. Employee #1 fell to the cement floor , dislocating his ankles and fracturing bones in his feet. He was hospitalized. His coworker, who held on to the load of angle iron, was lowered to the ground u nharmed.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 9
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 2
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