OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14467435
ARK WRECKING OF TEXAS
VICTORIA, TX·
Event description
Employee killed in 40 ft fall from steel beam
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and coworkers were dismantling a steel-framed structure in a chemica l plant. Some railings had been removed, along with some sections of floor grati ng at the 40 ft level. On one side where the floor grating was missing, Employee #1 was walking a beam holding onto a railing directly above the beam with one h and and carrying a cutting torch in the other. He bumped into a hose rack with h is stomach or side. He let go of the handrail to grab his side and fell backward through the floor where the grating had been removed. Employee #1 was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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