OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #803015
CONSTRUCTORA 2000
SANTURCE, PR·
Event description
Employee killed in fall from steel structure
Investigation abstract
Employees were using an oxy-acetylene torch to cut screws from steel girders so a truck crane could later remove them. The truck crane was used to support the g irder. Bolts were placed at each end of the girder. Later, the screws were remov ed. At the end of the job, the bolts were taken off. While taking a bolt off the end of a girder, Employee #1 lost his balance and fell into an opening. He was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 783
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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