OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221370414
WEYERHAEUSER CO.
GRAYLING, MI·
Event description
Employee breaks hip after OSB sheet falls and causes fall
Investigation abstract
At 3:00 a.m. on June 28, 2021, Employee #1 was operating the back line chain when a 4x8 sheet of OSB fell from a bunk of boards. The employee used a picaroon to grasp the tongue-and-groove 4x8 sheet and pulled hard to dislodge it. After two pulls, on the third pull, the picaroon ripped through the sheet, causing the employee to tumble backward and land on his right hip on the cement floor. Employee #1 sustained a broken right hip and was hospitalized for treatment.
Victim
-
#1 Hospitalized Age 56 M
- Event type
- 4
- Occupation code
- 779
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.