OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221425606

EDUARDO ROMERO

COOKEVILLE, TN· 2021-12-20T00:00:00

Event: Back, Bundle, Collapse, Crane, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Fracture, Leg, Truss, Vertebra, Wall
NAICS: 238130
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345715684
Employer profile: EDUARDO ROMERO
Summary number: 221425606
Report ID: 0454714
Project type: A
Construction end-use: C

Event description

Employee falls when wall collapses, receives severe leg and

Investigation abstract

At 3:00 p.m. on December 20, 2021, an employee stood on an exterior, fifth floor wall to receive a bundle of trusses lifted by a crane. As the trusses were positioned, a temporary bracing wall in the center of the bundle collapsed and caused the truss ends to strike against the fifth-floor walls, which then collapsed. The wall the employee stood on collapsed and the employee fell approximately fifty-five feet. The employee was hospitalized to treat fractures to the right lower leg and lower back (vertebrae).

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 22 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
7004

Fall distance
55

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