OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #878033
PIER,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,BRIDGE,ELEVATED WORK PLAT,LOST BALANCE,UNGUARDED,CRANE
Event description
Employee dies in fall from unguarded bridge pier
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 had accessed the top side of a 62 ft tall bridge pier, # EC-2, and h was swaying. The platform corner made contact with the pier and the employee re ached for it, but could not grab it. He then traversed along the pier to the poi nt where the opposite end of the platform was approaching. He reached for the pl atform, but again failed to grab it. He finally went back to the area where he h ad first attempted to grab the platform, as it was again swinging toward the pie r. He attempted to grab the platform, but lost his balance and fell 62 feet to t he concrete. He was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. ad gone down inside it to prepare for the placement of concrete. After a period of time, he exited the top of the pier and waited for a crane operator to positi on a personnel platform (suspended by the crane) where he could mount it and be brought back to ground level. The crane operator had just lifted employees to an other pier and saw Employee #1 signaling to him, so he swung the boom toward the unguarded pier so that Employee #1 could access the platform. The platform was rectangular, with sling legs from each platform corner to bull rings, which were placed on the crane hook. Consequently, as the platform approached the pier, it
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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