OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14347959
KOPPERS INDUSTRIES, WOODWARD COKE PLANT
DOLOMITE, AL·
Event description
One employee killed, one injured in platform collapse
Investigation abstract
At approximately 9:45 a.m. on May 10, 1988, Employees #1 and #2 were preparing t o remove the drive pulleys from a fresh air blower that was mounted on a structu ral steel platform 14 ft above a wharf coke pit. The steel beams, which had dete riorated, collapsed. Employee #1 suffered blunt force trauma to the chest and wa s pronounced dead at the scene. Employee #2 suffered a contusion and laceration to the scalp, forehead, and nose and was hospitalized.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 49 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 61 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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