OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14342190
PRESTCON INC.
PEMBROKE PINES, FL·
Event description
CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYEE CRUSHED BY WALL WHEN WALL BRACE FAILED
Investigation abstract
AT 1:25 PM ON APRIL 11, 1986, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS WELDING LEVELLING BOLTS ON A CEMEN T FOOTER TO AN INTERIOR CEMENT WALL ATTACHMENT. HE WAS EMPLOYED BY PRESCON INC. THE WORK SITE WAS AT 300 SW 130TH TERRACE IN PEMBROKE PINES. A CRANE WAS BEING U SED TO HOLD THE WALL IN PLACE WHILE THE SUPPORT BRACE WAS BEING INSTALLED. THE S UPPORT BRACE FAILED WHEN THE CRANE SUPPORT WAS REMOVED. THE WALL FELL OVER, FATA LLY CRUSHING EMPLOYEE #1.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 9
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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