OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14401897
BRAKE,COLLAPSE,WORK RULES,STRUCK AGAINST,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,LOADER,BRIDGE,DROWN,ELEVATED WORK PLAT
Event description
Employee drowns in fall from bridge
Investigation abstract
At approximately 4:28 p.m. on January 15, 1990, Employee #1 and two other labore . rs were standing on a combination plywood and 2 in. by 4 in. wooden work platfor m stationed between two pre-stressed concrete beams on a bridge over water. The three employees were shoveling pieces of concrete and reinforcing steel fragment s and loading the debris into a front end loader's bucket adjacent to the bridge 's edge. The front end loader operator attempted to move the loader so that a du mp truck could pass. As the operator moved the loader forward, it was unable to stop due to inoperative brakes. The loader bucket hit one of the pre-stressed be ams and the work platform collapsed. Employee #1 fell into the water and drowned
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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