OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14336200
SUNBELT STRUCTURES, INC.
FORSYTH, GA·
Event description
Employee dies in fall from bridge
Investigation abstract
At approximately 11:35 a.m., Employee #1 and his coworker were working 27 ft 10 evere head and chest injuries. in. above ground level on top of a bridge under construction. Employee #1, who w as 70 years old, had been transporting plywood from ground level to the top of t he bridge. The coworker was cutting the plywood to be used under the concrete sl abs while positioned 20 ft from the unguarded bridge openings (4 ft 6 in. wide b y 12 to 20 ft long) with his back facing them. Employee #1 then walked past the coworker's left side toward the bridge openings. The coworker turned his head to the right to talk with Employee #1, but there was no response. Employee #1 had fallen through the unguarded bridge opening to the ground. Employee #1 died of s
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 70 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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