OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14497028
BROWN & ROOT USA, INC.
ASHDOWN, AR·
Event description
Employee killed in 210 ft fall when hot slag burned lanyard
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working at the top of an elevator shaft He used a nylon lanyard to tie off and wrapped it around a steel column twice so it would hold him close to the column. The lanyard was placed above a wall girt (a short piece of angle iron welded to the column) and Employee #1 stood on a wall girt located 4 ft be low the one supporting his lanyard. He was cutting an anchor plate off the colum n for rewelding at another location when molten slag fell on the wall girt holdi ng his lanyard. The slag burned through the nylon lanyard and Employee #1 fell a pproximately 210 ft. He was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 16
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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