OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14470058
BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION
JOHNSTOWN, PA·
Event description
Two employees killed when struck by falling steel billets
Investigation abstract
Employees #1 and #2 were unhooking a crane load. They were standing next to an 8 0 in. high pile of steel billets; each billet was 6 3/4 in. square by 35 ft long , and weighed 2 1/2 tons. Three billets fell off the top of the pile and struck Employees #1 and #2, killing them.
Victims (2)
-
#1 Fatality Age 39 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#2 Fatality Age 43 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.