OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #743161
CONCRETE FORM WORK,CARPENTER,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,SHORING,OVERTURN
Event description
Employee injured in fall with tubular steel concrete shoring
Investigation abstract
At 10:50 a.m. on March 7, 1990, Employee #1, a carpenter, climbed up the inside of a 2 1/2 tubular welded frame concrete shoring system that was approximately 3 ft wide by 4 ft long by 21 ft high. He was going to hook up a pair of 20 ft nyl on slings for the removal of an intact shoring tower. He had just finished attac hing the slings to the shoring tower and was at the top of the shoring tower whe n he felt the tower start to tilt toward the west side. When the tower hit the g round, Employee #1 sustained multiple injuries and was hospitalized.
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 39 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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