OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #822262
TRI-STATE STEEL ERECTORS, INC.
ANNAPOLIS, MD·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from steel structure
Investigation abstract
At about 10:00 a.m. on March 28, 1988, Employee #1, an experienced iron worker f o the concrete floor, which was covered by construction debris. Employee #1 requ ired hospitalization. Ppe was not used. or Tri-State Steel Erectors, Inc., was erecting the steel structure of a new one -story swimming pool facility in Annapolis, MD. Employee #1 was positioned on to p of a section of roof bar joist about 8 ft from its end support, which was an 1 8 by 35 steel girder. He had just finished clamping a stabilizer strip to the ba r joist when he was instructed by his foreman to move to another work location. Employee #1 walked the bar joist back to where it was supported by the girder. W hile stepping 1 to 2 ft up onto a stack of metal deck forms, which were near the end of the structure, his foot slipped from the forms and he fell 15 ft 6 in. t
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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