OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #786640
DECKING,HEAD,INSTALLING,UNSECURED,CONSTRUCTION,FALL
Event description
Employee injured when decking falls
Investigation abstract
On or about October 24, 1989, a crew of iron workers was laying decking on a sec the underside of the steel beams, stood on the decking to receive a small piece of plate from an iron worker who was working below and to one side of the decki ng. When Employee #1 reached for the plate (which was approximately 6 in. by 12i n. by 1/2in.) the decking gave way sending him through the 2 ft by 8 ft 3 in. ho le it created to the concrete floor. He sustained multiple injuries to the head and right side of his body. Employee #1 was given immediate care at Good Samarit an Hospital in Corvallis, OR, and then was flown by Life Flight to Good Samarita n Hospital in Portland, OR. ond floor level approximately 18 ft above a concrete first floor. The crew laid the decking between two pieces of angle iron, with 2 1/2 in. on either edge of e ach sheet resting on the angle iron by on either end. These pieces were not take n down. At this time, the welder was about 50 yards away working on other pieces of decking. At break time, approximately 20 employees--concrete finishers and c arpenters--walked across the unattached decking. Following their break, the empl oyees returned to their work station not knowing about the decking. Several minu tes later, Employee #1, who was working from a scissor lift installing plates on
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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