OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #749440
DALEY CORPORATION
SAN DIEGO, CA·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from concrete form
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was checking a bridge pier concrete form at the end of his work shif t, which was at 9:00 a.m. due to rain. He climbed down on the side of the form a bout 54 ft above the cofferdam's floor. As the employee was leaning out holding onto a piece of rebar, the rebar broke loose and caused him to fall to the coffe rdam floor. Employee #1 was wearing a safety belt with a rebar hook attached but was not tied off or otherwise protected from falling. Employee #1 was hospitali zed for two weeks with a shattered thigh, fractures of both knees, and a fractur ed right elbow.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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