104,543Records 70,659Employers 84,666Hospitalizations 27,563Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-09-30
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14538391

ERECTION PROCESS,BUILDING,IRON WORKER,SAFETY BELT,CONSTRUCTION,STEEL ERECTION,FALL,WALKING ON BEAM

Event
ERECTION PROCESS,BUILDING,IRON WORKER,SAFETY BELT,CONSTRUCTION,STEEL ERECTION,FALL,WALKING ON BEAM
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14538391
Report ID
452110

Event description

CONSTRUCTION WORKER KILLED IN FALL FROM STEEL MEMBER

Investigation abstract

An employee was walking on an open steel member, carrying a water cooler. He sto pped, lowered the water cooler by rope to the ground level, and fell. The employ ee, who had not been protected by safety nets or a personal fall arrest system, died of injuries sustained in the fall.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 23 M

    Nature of injury
    21
    Part of body
    19
    Event type
    5
    Source
    8
    Occupation code
    597
    Human factor
    20
    Environmental factor
    13
    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.