OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #630178
PHILADELPHIA WRECKING COMPANY
CAMDEN, NJ·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by falling bricks
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, of the Philadelphia Wrecking Co., Inc., was standing approximately 20 ft away from a wall of a two-story brick building that the company was demoli shing. Three of the walls had been taken down. The remaining wall was adjacent t o another building. A Caterpillar front end loader was compacting the rubble whe n a section of the remaining standing wall gave way and fell. The falling bricks struck and killed Employee #1.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 18
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 14
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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