OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14424352
BEN HUR CONST. CO.
ST. LOUIS, MO·
Event description
EMPLOYEE FALLS FROM BEAM DURING STEEL ERECTION
Investigation abstract
Some employees were erecting lightweight steel I beams for a floor that was 54 f e the hook; and, when the hook became free, the beam moved and caused him to fal l to the ground. Employee #1 died of injuries sustained in the fall. Nets were n ot installed at the lower levels. Tag lines were not used, and the minimum two b olts were not installed at each end connection of the beams. t high. The employees were on the third-floor level at the northeast corner of a 12-story building under construction. As employee #1 disengaged a tandem lift h ook that had become hooked on the lower flange of the beam he was on, a connecto r fell to the ground from a beam that was not connected by at least two bolts. E mployee #1 removed the choker sling from the beam and was placing the sling into a lower empty hook of a stringer while a crawler tower crane was booming away f rom the steel. The wind moved a load line and stringer into the beam, causing an other lower empty hook to engage the lower flange. Employee #1 tried to disengag
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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