OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691907
CAMCO CONST CO
SOLITUDE, UT·
Event description
Employee injured when struck by falling concrete form
Investigation abstract
On October 22, 1986, Employee #1 and the superintendent were removing concrete f orms from three doorways in a new maintenance shop being built in Solitude, UT. Forms had been removed from two doorways and the two employees were just startin g on doorway #3, the north door. Two braces had been removed and employees were ready to remove the other two braces. Employee #1 was working on the south end o f the doorway and the superintendent was working at the north end. The brace at the north end came out first, letting the form twist and fall 14 ft, striking Em ployee #1 across the head and back. Employee #1 was taken to Cottonwood Hospital .
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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