OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #824276
EASTERN STAINLESS STEEL COMPANY INC.
BALTIMORE, MD·
Event description
EMPLOYEE STRUCK IN HEAD
Investigation abstract
At 3:00 p.m. on April 18, 1989, Employee #1 reported to work at which time he he dge crane, and removing the catwalk from the top of the furnace. ard about a problem with the operation of the #7 roof furnace. Employee #1 went to that area to check out the repairs and to make some other repairs while that furnace was off line. Employee #1 was struck by a catwalk which broke loose from the top of the electric furnace as he walked into the area, and was hospitalize d for a concussion. It was noted that repair personnel knew the catwalk was loos e but not to the point were it would fall. Further, they were attempting to foll ow proper repair procedures which included; closing the furnace roof to protect the repair personnel from the heat of the furnace, securing the catwalk to a bri
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 44 Male
- Nature of injury
- Concussion (6)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- BUILDINGS/STRUCTURES (8)
- Occupation
- Supervisors, mechanics and repairers (503)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- 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.