OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14518864

PLATFORM,HEAD,DISMANTLING,COLLAPSE,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,MILL--PLANT

1984-04-17T00:00:00

Event: PLATFORM,HEAD,DISMANTLING,COLLAPSE,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,MILL--PLANT
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14518864
Report ID: 625700

Event description

Employee killed during dismantling of pulp mill

Investigation abstract

At 8:30 a.m. on April 17, 1984, Employee #1 and coworkers were dismantling a pul p mill. The pulp mill platform was 50 ft square and 30 ft high, with 127 tons of concrete and iron. They were preparing to make a cut on the northwest column ne ar the ground when the platform moved southward prematurely and collapsed. A pie ce of iron attached to the platform struck Employee #1, smashing his head. He wa s killed.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 28 M

Nature of injury
1

Part of body
13

Event type
2

Source
28

Occupation code
999

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
6

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.