OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14434351
HAWAIIAN DREDGING & CONSTRUCTION CO
EWA BEACH, HI·
Event description
Employee injured by fall from cooling tower
Investigation abstract
At approximately 1:20 p.m. on April 27, 1989, Employee #1 and a coworker were wo rking 34 ft high in a cooling tower frame, one level below the roof's deck, help ing millwrights attach a fan shroud (cover) to the foundation below the roof dec k. They were standing on two 2 in. by 6 in. on edge joists spaced about 3 1/2 in . apart, installing braces to bolt down the fan stack support. The coworker was drilling pilot holes and Employee #1 was driving nails in joists, when Employee #1 fell. He struck wooden frame braces as he fell to the concrete deck. Employee #1 sustained a skull fracture, a cerebral contusion, and a bruised right hip.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 31 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Carpenter apprentices (569)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.