OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #813576
C.S. MCCROSSAN, INC.
ST. PAUL, MN·
Event description
Employee dies after falling from bridge
Investigation abstract
At approximately 3:39 p.m. on September 13, 1988, two carpenters and Employee #1 rauma to the central nervous system complicated by bi-basilar skull fractures. , a laborer, were laying a plywood deck working northward on the Mounds Boulevar d Bridge. The work area was just south of the bridge midpoint, 27 ft above the c enter divider of the east- and westbound lanes of I-94. The carpenters were nail ing 4 ft by 8 ft sheets of plywood onto 2 in. by 12 in. wood joists while the la borer kept ahead of them laying the sheets. When Employee #1 went to get more sh eets, the carpenters heard a noise, looked around, and could not see Employee #1 . They looked through the incomplete deck and saw him lying face down, just off the pavement. Employee #1 died at 4:13 a.m. on September 15, 1988, from severe t
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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