OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221425085

SHOWCOR CORPORATION

ANAHEIM, CA· 2021-12-17T00:00:00

Event: Assembling, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Falling Object, Fracture, Lung, Puncture, Rib, Sanding Machine, Struck By, Tank
NAICS: 325211
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #345712756
Employer profile: SHOWCOR CORPORATION
Summary number: 221425085
Report ID: 0950631

Event description

Employee fractures ribs when crushed by fiberglass dome

Investigation abstract

At 8:45 p.m. on December 17, 2021, an employee, a laborer, was watching a coworker while he was sanding a fiberglass dome that was 6 feet wide by 10 feet in diameter and 1150 pounds. The dome was not secured to the assembly cart and as the coworker was sanding inside the dome, it fell off the cart. The employee tried to escape to the opening space between the dome and another completed fiberglass tank but got crushed. The employee was hospitalized to treat four fractured ribs and a punctured lung.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 42 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
889

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