OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14397707
THE PRESCON CORPORATION
SAN ANTONIO, TX·
Event description
One employee dies, one injured in fall from platform
Investigation abstract
Employees #1 and #2, construction laborers, were untrained, night shift, elevate quirements. d highway construction employees returning from the ground level to an elevated construction level by an extendible articulating boom. An 18 wheel truck struck the platform as it swung over the unlighted and poorly marked interstate highway . The unbelted employees were thrown onto the highway, where a second vehicle ra n over Employee #1, killing him. The fall severely injured Employee #2. The empl oyees' misjudgment of hazardous work practices could have been avoided by the co nstruction company's safety manager having equipment operators trained and desig nated in accordance with their safety manual and the equipment manufacturer's re
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 36 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE (HWY) (29)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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#2 Hospitalized Age 25 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE (HWY) (29)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.