OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #893768
CONCRETE PIPE & PRODUCTS CO., INC.
MANASSAS, VA·
Event description
Employee killed in fall through skylight
Investigation abstract
At approximately 7:10 a.m. on February 28, 1989, Employee #1 and coworkers were ight (approximately 250 lb), and he fell approximately 32 ft into a pit that had been prepared to install the new pipe machine. He was taken to the hospital, wh ere he died at 11:47 a.m. on the roof of a concrete manufacturing plant. They were loosening and removing roof panels so that a crane line could be lowered through the roof opening to in stall a structural steel tower for a new pipe machine. The roof was too low to a llow an inside crane to extend its boom high enough to position the tower. The e mployees were near the peak of the roof where there were six fiberglass skylight panels, three along the northwest side of the roof and three along the southeas t side. Each employee was wearing a safety belt, but before Employee #1 could be tied off, he inadvertently stepped onto a skylight panel. It broke under his we
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 20 Male
- Nature of injury
- Puncture (18)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- BUILDINGS/STRUCTURES (8)
- Occupation
- Construction laborers (869)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.