OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14539233
ERECTION PROCESS,RIGGING,GIRDER,IRON WORKER,COLUMN,CONSTRUCTION,STEEL ERECTION,STRUCK BY,BRIDGE
Event description
A VERTICAL STANDING STEEL GIRDER FELL OVER
Investigation abstract
AN EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK BY AND CRUSHED AGAINST A GIRDER WHERE HE AND ANOTHER EMPL OYEE WERE REMOVING THE LIFTING DEVICES FROM THE GIRDER WHEN AN ADJACENT, VERTICA L STANDING 70FT LONG (APPROX. 10TON) GIRDER, FELL AGAINST THE FIRST GIRDER. THE ADJACENT GIRDER WAS STANDING VERTICALLY ON FILL MATERIAL AND FELL OVER, PINNING THE EMPLOYEE BETWEEN THE TWO GIRDERS, CRUSHING HIS ABDOMEN. THE GIRDER THAT FELL OVER WAS RAISED IMMEDIATELY, BUT THE DECEASED INJURIES WERE FATAL AND HE WAS PR ONOUNCED DEAD BY THE CORONER, AT THE SITE. THE OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS NOT INJURED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 2
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