OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14450035
PHILLIPS SYSTEMS
ST. CLOUD, MN·
Event description
EMPLOYEE INJURED WHEN STRUCK BY FALLING CONCRETE BLOCKS
Investigation abstract
AT APPROXIMATELY 4:26 ON MARCH 24, 1987, EMPLOYEE #1 CHAINED BACK THE UNLOADING TATEMENTS BY EMPLOYEES INDICATE THAT THIS WALL HAS BEEN STRUCK BY TRUCKS BEFORE. DOOR OF A WASTE CARDBOARD CONTAINED WHICH HAD BEEN LOADED IN THE BACK OF A TRUCK . HE GUIDED THE TRUCK, WITH CARDBOARD CONTAINER, INTO THE COMPACTING SHED. HE WA S ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE TRUCK WHEN THE TRUCK'S DRIVER PULLED THE TRUCK AHEAD. THE LOADING DOOR HAD NOT BEEN CHAINED TIGHTLY ENOUGH AND CAUGHT AGAINST THE WAL L OF THE COMPACTING SHED. THE WALL PARTIALLY COLLAPSED, SENDING CONCRETE BLOCKS OVER THE TOP OF THE TRUCK AND CONTAINER. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS STRUCK BY SEVERAL CONCR ETE BLOCKS. HE RECEIVED SPINAL INJURIES AND IS CURRENTLY PARALYZED FROM THE NECK DOWN. HE IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION, ON A RESPIRATOR AND UNABLE TO COMMUNICATE. S
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 29
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 889
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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