OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #884429
STEEL,COLLAPSE,RAFTER,BACK,BRACE
Event description
EMPLOYEE STRUCK BY PIECE OF METAL
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was changing out braces on a set of steel rafters on the ground leve l. A rafter boy was sitting on a wooden structure approximately 6 feet above the ground. Other workers were standing on the ground using hand tools. The rafter boy collapsed and one of the perlings struck Employee #1 on the back.
Victim
-
#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.