OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14320881

HAROLD EMERSON

PHILADELPHIA, PA· 1986-05-17T00:00:00

Event: STEEL BEAM, DEMOLITION, COLLAPSE, BUILDING COLLAPSE, CONSTRUCTION, CRUSHED, UNSTABLE SURFACE, FALL, STRUCK BY, FALLING OBJECT
NAICS: 000000
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #858639
Employer profile: HAROLD EMERSON
Summary number: 14320881
Report ID: 317000

Event description

Employee killed when crushed by steel beam

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 and a coworker were removing flooring from the joists of the second floor of what had been a three-story row-type residential structure (the second and third stories had already been demolished). When a corner of the structure s tarted to collapse, Employee #1 slid down the collapsing flooring to ground leve l. The steel supporting beam then gave way and collapsed on top of Employee #1, crushing and killing him. The coworker managed to move away from the collapsing floor, and grabbed a remaining stable member of the structure.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 41 M

Nature of injury
21

Part of body
19

Event type
2

Source
42

Occupation code
999

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
18

Task assigned
1

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