OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14383988
PHEONIX STEEL ERECTORS, INCORPORATED
AURORA, IL·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from steel when sling breaks
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, an iron worker, was connecting a steel beam into a vertical column 23 feet in the air in a one story warehouse/supermarket. The employee had fasten ed two bolts on one end of the beam and the beam was supported in the middle by a 3/8 inch wire rope sling. As he was making the connection for the other end of the beam, the sling fractured in the middle. Employee #1 fell and was injured. The piece of steel weighed 225 lb and was rated for 2,000 lb. The sling was insp ected before use by the union steward. The sling supposedly had not lifted any h eavier loads, but was destroyed before the inspection. No citations relative to the accident were issued.
Victim
-
#1 Hospitalized Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.