OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691287
KLEMP CORP
OREM, UT·
Event description
Employee's leg fractured when struck by steel bar
Investigation abstract
After Employee #1 had butt-welded an additional 2 ft onto several 3/8 by 6 in. b y 20 ft bars and begun to stack them. When the stack fell against the safety bar on the stand the weld holding the bar broke, causing the material to fall appro ximately 3 ft and strike Employee #1 on the right leg, fracturing it.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 783
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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