OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #732941
CREATIVE CONSTRUCTION INC.
WALHALLA, SC·
Event description
FALL
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEES WERE ON STEEL FRAME CHURCH BUILDING SETTING THE 86 FOOT LONG TRUSSES IN PLACE WHEN THE TRUSSES COLLAPSED. EMPLOYEES WERE 44 FEET HIGH. A CRANE WAS BE ING USED TO LIFT THE TRUSSES IN PLACE ON THE ROOF AND THE EMPLOYEES WERE PLACING THE TRUSSES AS THEY WERE LIFTED IN PLACE. ONE EMPLOYEE WAS KILLED FROM IMPACT W ITH GROUND AND OTHERS HAD BROKEN BONES. THE TRUSSES WERE NOT PROPERLY PLACED.
Victims (6)
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#1 Fatality Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 595
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#2 Hospitalized Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 15
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 595
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#3 Hospitalized Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 17
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 595
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#4 Hospitalized Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 595
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#5 Non-hospitalized injury Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 595
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#6 Non-hospitalized injury Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 20
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 595
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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