OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14336234
TRUSS,COLLAPSE,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY,BRACING,FALLING OBJECT
Event description
Employee injured when struck by falling roof trusses
Investigation abstract
On January 11, 1989, Employee #1 was underneath wooden roof trusses preparing ti me cards when the trusses collapsed, striking him. He was hospitalized. There we re about 52 trusses installed. Employees had previously started dismantling the roof trusses, which were not braced in accordance with BWT-76 of the Truss Plate Institute.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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