OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #601583

STEVE SLATER

INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH, FL· 1988-07-01T00:00:00

Event: HEAD, TRUSS, HARD HAT, PPE, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, STRUCK BY
NAICS: 000000
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #106312093
Employer profile: STEVE SLATER
Summary number: 601583
Report ID: 420600

Event description

Employee killed when struck on head by truss

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 and a coworker were carrying a truss. While lifting the truss to the roof, the coworker dropped his end of the truss, which struck Employee #1 in th e head and killed him. The employees were not wearing hard hats.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 35 M

Nature of injury
3

Part of body
13

Event type
1

Source
8

Occupation code
999

Human factor
11

Environmental factor
8

Hazardous substance
8880

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.