OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #777680
FRACTURE,UNSECURED,PINNED,LOAD SHIFT,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,OFF LOADING
Event description
Employee injured when struck by steel bundle
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were off loading bundles of Q-type decking. As one en d was being guided into place by Employee #1, the load shifted due to ice on the metal. As it did, the nylon sling was cut by a piece of protruding sheet metal. One end of the load dropped and pinned the employee to the ground. The other en d of the sheet metal bundle remained suspended. Employee #1 suffered multiple fr actures and was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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