OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #891267

AMERICAN IRON WORKS INC

CHEVY CHASE, MD· 1988-09-29T00:00:00

Event: BEAM, FRACTURE, HEAD, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, SKULL, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, BRAIN
NAICS: 000000
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #104394259
Employer profile: AMERICAN IRON WORKS INC
Summary number: 891267
Report ID: 352420

Event description

Employee killed in fall from beam

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was operating a ratchet type wrench with one hand and holding onto a horizontal beam with the other hand. He fell 34 ft to a concrete surface, suffe ring massive head trauma, a fractured skull, and a brain hematoma. He was killed .

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 28 M

Nature of injury
21

Part of body
13

Event type
5

Source
8

Occupation code
597

Human factor
20

Environmental factor
13

Task assigned
1

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