OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #888594
ROBERT L. FYRE & SONS, INC.
SYKESVILLE, MD·
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
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#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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