OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #751222
KIEWITT PACIFIC CO.
LOS ANGELES, CA·
Event description
Employee killed in fall with column
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working from a work platform, filling the first in a series of f acer columns with concrete. A crew that was guying the fourth column in the seri es released the come-along without having a temporary securing line to adjust it . The column fell into columns two and three, which then fell into the first col umn. Employee #1 fell with the column 40 feet to the cement floor and was killed .
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- STRUCK AGAINST (6)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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