OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #606467
PIER,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,RAILROAD TRACK,BRIDGE,DUNNAGE
Event description
Employee dies in fall from railroad bridge
Investigation abstract
At approximately 11:00 a.m. on December 15, 1989, Employee #1 was walking across a stack of dunnage, which had been placed as a bridge between two piers of a ra ilroad bridge that was being torn down. Employee #1 was attempting to step down onto the northernmost pier, facing west, when he fell to his left. He then fell from the pier, and landed face down in the gravel between the rails of track #1. Employee #1 was transported to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1: 30 a.m. on December 19, 1989.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 49 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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