OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14541833
NEWBY CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
DULUTH, GA·
Event description
Employees injured when struck by falling roof trusses
Investigation abstract
On January 11, 1989, Employees #1 and #2 were underneath wooden roof trusses rem oving nails from miscellaneous lumber. There were about 52 trusses installed. An other employer had previously started to dismantle the roof trusses, which were not braced in accordance with BWT-76 of the Truss Plate Institute. Employees #1 and #2 were struck by collapsing trusses. Employee #1 was hospitalized.
Victims (2)
-
#1 Hospitalized Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 14
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 55 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 6
- 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.