OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #601997
FRACTURE,HIGH WIND,MAINTENANCE,CONCRETE PANEL,TORSO,CRUSHED
Event description
MAINTENANCE WORKER KILLED BY FALLING CONCRETE PANEL
Investigation abstract
A maintenance worker from a nearby office industrial building was crushed while making a telephone call from a construction trailer parked adjacent to a buildin g under construction in an industrial park when an inadequately braced precast c oncrete panel weighing in excess of 36,000 pounds collapsed onto the trailer. In vestigation revealed both braces on the panel were inadequately installed. One w as improperly pinned so that it had no tensile strength, while the other had an improperly torqued expansion bolt at its bottom anchorage. A gust of wind likely blew the panel over.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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