OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14414676
STRUCK BY,ERECTION PROCESS,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,RIDING ON EQUIPMENT,GUY,CONSTRUCTION,FALLING OBJECT
Event description
Four employees injured by falling steel
Investigation abstract
Employee #4 was operating a backhoe while Employees #1 through #3, a plumber, a pipefitter, and a laborer, were riding in the backhoe's bucket. The vehicle was backing up to retrieve some pipe from the other end of the job site. The road on which was traveling was in an area where bar joints were being erected. The nor th side of two bays had been welded while the south side had not been bolted and was supported only by guy wires. The backhoe snagged one of these wires, pullin g the steel on top of the employees in the bucket. Employees #1 through #4 were injured. The supporting guy wires had not been flagged or wrapped in reflective tape.
Victims (6)
-
#1 Hospitalized Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 15
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#3 Hospitalized Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#4 Hospitalized Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
-
#982 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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.