OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14466361
NORTH CENTRAL SALVAGE
DALLAS, TX·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by collapsing brick wall
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a temporary independent laborer, was tearing away the lumber and su pport members from a two-story block fire wall. The wall was left unsupported an d collapsed on Employee #1. He suffered multiple blunt impact injuries, includin g skull fractures and brain contusions, and was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- BUILDINGS/STRUCTURES (8)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- 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.