OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #891879
CONCRETE FORM WORK,FRACTURE,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,NECK,STRUCK BY,BRIDGE
Event description
Employee fractures neck in fall from bridge
Investigation abstract
At approximately 1:00 p.m. on December 4, 1989, Employee #1 and two coworkers we at is used at the end of the forms to retain the concrete. He was standing next to the steel form kicking out some wooden wedges from between the end of the bri dge and the bridge dam when the brace slipped, causing the form to fall and push Employee #1 off the edge of the bridge. He was hospitalized with a fractured ne ck. re on the northern end of a bridge that was being constructed over two roads. Th ey were installing a pour-in-place concrete parapet wall on the eastern side at the point where the end of the bridge met the road bed, approximately 68 in. bel ow the top of the bridge pavement. Steel forms 10 ft long by 34 in. wide were be ing used to construct the wall. Employee #1 tilted the form away from the instal led section of the wall in preparation for repositioning it from the end of the bridge to another location. While waiting for the crane to pick it up, he braced the steel form in an upright position with a 2 3/4 in. plywood bulkhead form th
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 39 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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