OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #827378
HIGH WIND,WALL,COLLAPSE,CONSTRUCTION,CRUSHED
Event description
Employee killed when crushed by collapsing wall
Investigation abstract
At approximately 3:50 p.m. on April 26, Employee #1 returned to the concrete blo ck wall that he had just completed to retrieve a shirt he had left behind. A sev ere weather watch was in effect. A sudden, very strong gust of wind caused the w all to collapse, crushing the employee to death.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 21 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 563
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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