OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14433635
FOOTINGS,STEEL BEAM,COLLAPSE,CONSTRUCTION,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,BOLT,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT
Event description
Employee injured when struck by falling steel beam
Investigation abstract
The bolts anchoring two steel columns supporting an overhead joist beam had loos ened from their foundations and buckled. A 976 lb steel support beam structure a t their foundations collapsed and struck Employee #1.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 51 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 14
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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