OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #777706
ROCKY MOUNTAIN WELDING & FABRICATING
PLEASANT GROVE, UT·
Event description
Employee injures chest lifting dumpster
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was turning over a small fabricated garbage dumpster for additional painting. As he strained to turn over the dumpster, he felt a sharp pain in the sternum area. Employee #1 continued to work until the end of his shift and then reported the incident to the foreman. At 8:07 a.m. on April 10, 1989, Employee # 1 went for medical treatment because pain in his sternum had increased above a t olerable level.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 23 Male
- Nature of injury
- Strain/Sprain (20)
- Part of body
- CHEST (5)
- Accident type
- OTHER (14)
- Source of injury
- BODILY MOTION (5)
- Occupation
- Hand grinding and polishing occupations (794)
- Human factor
- MATER-HANDLG PROCED. INAPPROPR (11)
- Environmental factor
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQUIP./METHOD (8)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.