OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14489827
DECKING,ERECTION PROCESS,UNGUARDED FL OPENING,IRON WORKER,CONSTRUCTION,STEEL ERECTION,FALL,BRIDGE
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED BY FALL THROUGH UNPROTECTED HOLE
Investigation abstract
Employees were installing metal decking (stay-in-place forms) on a bridge near a pier. The bundles of metal decking were placed ahead of the workers on the outs ide beam of the bridge. One employee was removing a sheet of metal decking about 2.5 meters long from a bundle. He backed up and fell through an unprotected hol e that was 4 meters long by 2.4 meters wide. The employee fell 10.7 meters to th e ground and was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 39 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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