OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #761429
TRI-CITY MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS, INC.
ASHEBORO, NC·
Event description
Employee injured when impaled by lightning rod on roof
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working with a crew of three other employees preparing to set an d install a dust collection system on the roof of a building. While unhooking a 21 ft long section of 10 in. pipe from the crane, he took three steps backward, stumbled at the wall, and fell onto a lightning rod on the same level. Impaled o n the lightning rod, Employee #1 suffered a punctured rectum and lower intestine s. He then rolled off the rod and fell 37 in. to a different section of the roof . No additional injuries were sustained in the second fall.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 18
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 4
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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