OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #745265
WILLIAM H UTZ SR., BUILDERS
MIDDLETOWN, MD·
Event description
Employee falls and fractures skull when struck by I-beam
Investigation abstract
On October 17, 1988, Employee #1 a carpenter's helper, and two coworkers were ma . The I-beam being set was 31 ft 3 in., although the plans called for a 31 ft 6 in. I-beam. The crew was short one employee. nually setting a steel I-beam into pockets in the base walls of a single family home. Employee #1 was in the basement on the third rung of a 6 ft wood stepladde r that faced the basement's north wall. An I-beam was resting on his right shoul der. The crew leader was standing on the ground above the north basement wall he lping Employee #1 position the I-beam. Another carpenter's helper was straddling the south basement wall, watching the positioning of the I-beam. The I-beam fel l, knocking Employee #1 off the ladder. He fell backward, striking the back of h is head against the concrete floor and fracturing his skull. He was hospitalized
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 569
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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