OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14400295
REBAR,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,CRUSHED,DUMP TRUCK,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,UNSTABLE POSITION
Event description
Employee crushed and killed by falling rebar
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was dry packing a concrete column on the third level of an undergrou nd parking garage. A dump truck at ground level was dumping sand parallel to the excavation. When its bed neared full extension the truck tumbled into the hole, landing on steel rebar on the fourth level. The rebar fell through the decking and struck Employee #1, knocking him to the basement floor. He was found lying u nder the bundles of steel. Employee #1 sustained multiple fractures and died as a result of his injuries.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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