OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691733
D & H STEEL SUPPLY CO.
SALT LAKE CITY, UT·
Event description
Employee's skull lacerated after striking head on gauge
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a welder, was at the rear of an Omada metal shear retrieving a piec e of plate steel from the bin under the shear. He bent over, reached into the bi n, and grasped the plate. When the 6 ft 2 in. tall employee stood up, he hit his head on the 4 ft high shear back gauge, sustaining a skull laceration. Causal f actors included misjudgment by the employee, who stood up before his head had cl eared the back gauge. No citations will be issued.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 783
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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