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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #888594

BEAM,STEEL BEAM,HARD HAT,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,UNTRAINED

Event
BEAM,STEEL BEAM,HARD HAT,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,UNTRAINED
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
888594
Report ID
352420

Event description

Employee injured when struck in head by steel I-beam

Investigation abstract

On October 21, 1988, Employee #1 was setting an 8 in. center support steel I-bea ader/backhoe, he caused it to lunge forward. Consequently the chains went slack and the I-beam slipped off, striking Employee #1 on the head. He was taken to th e hospital, where he was treated for a concussion and released. The employees we re neither provided with nor wearing hard hats. The equipment operator had not b een trained in the recognition and avoidance of hazards to his work environment. The employer had no established safety and health rules. Employees were not mad e aware of their rights to a safe and healthy place of employment. m in a basement-level apartment that was being added to an existing home. The I- beam was to support the ceiling. Employee #1 and two coworkers, one of whom was president of the company, were inside the addition while another coworker was in the front of the addition operating a Ford 500 model DF211F front end loader an d backhoe. The I-beam was chained to hooks on the front end loader bucket and lo wered atop the west wall of the lolly column at the west end, 7 ft 6 in. above t he floor. While the employees within were preparing to put the final bracing on the I-beam, the equipment operator stepped off. When he stepped back onto the lo

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 21 M

    Nature of injury
    6
    Part of body
    13
    Event type
    1
    Source
    27
    Occupation code
    567
    Human factor
    1
    Environmental factor
    6
    Task assigned
    1

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