OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14561773
J. ACKIES MASONRY & CARPENTRY
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY·
Event description
CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYEES PINNED WHEN FOUNDATION WALL COLLAPSED
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEES #1-4 WERE IN A NEWLY-DUG TRENCH 5 FEET DEEP AND 2 FEET WIDE ABUTTING A N ADJACENT BUILDING. FORMS WERE PLACED TO LOCATE CONCRETE FOOTING. THE FOUNDATIO N OF THE ADJACENT BUILDING GAVE WAY, COLLAPSING THE FOUNDATION WALL AND PINNING THE FOUR EMPLOYEES AGAINST THE WALL OF THE TRENCH. PART OF THE BRICK WALL OF THE BUILDING COLLAPSED ONTO THE CONCRETE SLAB. THE WORKERS WERE STANDING UPRIGHT WH EN CAUGHT. EMPLOYEE #4 ESCAPED. THE OTHERS WERE FREED BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT USI NG PNEUMATIC TOOLS AND JACK HAMMERS. EMPLOYEES #2-4 WERE TREATED AT HOSPITALS AN D RELEASED. EMPLOYEE #1 RECEIVED FATAL INTERNAL INJURIES.
Victims (4)
-
#1 Fatality Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#3 Non-hospitalized injury Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#4 Non-hospitalized injury Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 599
- 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.