OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #601997
THOMPSON-RUBIN ASSOCIATES
TAMPA, FL·
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 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- BODYSYSTEM (4)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- BUILDINGS/STRUCTURES (8)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- POSITION INAPROPRIATE FOR TASK (10)
- Environmental factor
- SQUEEZE POINT ACTION (4)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.