OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #849372
HEAD,WALL,DEMOLITION,LACERATION,BEAM,COLLAPSE,PINNED,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT
Event description
Employee dies after pinned under rubble in wall collapse
Investigation abstract
At approximately 12:45 p.m. on May 5, 1989, Employee #1 was working on a demolit ion site, cleaning and stacking house brick salvaged from the structures being d emolished. He was working adjacent to a brick wall about 1 story high. It was a windy day and, according to coworkers on the site, the top 3 or 4 ft section of the wall collapsed on top of Employee #1. A heavy I-beam above a window frame fe ll with the wall section and pinned the employee under the rubble. He sustained a severe head laceration and was extricated from the rubble. Employee #1 was rus hed to a hospital, where he died of his injuries.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- 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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