OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #689893
OHBAYASHI CORPORATION
MINNEAPOLIS, MN·
Event description
EMPLOYEE STRUCK BY FALLING BUILDING STONE
Investigation abstract
AT 7:40 PM ON AUGUST 22, 1986, EMPLOYEE #1, A LABORER, WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED WHE N A PIECE OF SHALL ESTIMATED TO WEIGH 300 POUNDS FELL ON HIM FROM THE BROW OF TH E TUNNEL PORTAL IN SHAFT #7. THE STONE BENT THE EMPLOYEE OVER AND SLAMMED HIS HE AD INTO THE ROAD HEADER HE WAS OPERATING. HE WAS ALSO KNOCKED OFF THE MACHINE. A S HE WAS LYING ON THE GROUND HE WAS STRUCK BY A SECOND STONE, WHICH CRUSHED HIS HIP, PELVIS AND ANKLE. OTHER INJURIES CONSISTED OF HEAD TRAUMA, CRACKED VERTABRA AND THREE VERTABRA WHICH BECAME FUSED BY THE IMPACT ON HIS HEAD.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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