OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #570333
ERECTION PROCESS,BUILDING,COLLAPSE,IRON WORKER,COLUMN,CONSTRUCTION,TWO BOLT,STEEL ERECTION,FALL,STEEL CONNECTING
Event description
Employees fall with collapse of steel column
Investigation abstract
Two employees were on top of a 42-foot-high beam, waiting for the next piece of steel to be raised for horizontal positioning. The beam fell from atop unsecured columns, and the employee rode the beam 42 feet to the ground. The employees we re hospitalized with back, leg, arm, and head injuries sustained in the fall. Th e workers on crew did not like two-bolt column fastening system and had not cons idered securing vertical columns for stability.
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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