OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #908079
BEAM,STRUCTURE MOVING,FRACTURE,SHOULDER,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,LEG,WRIST
Event description
Employee struck and injured by beam as house falls
Investigation abstract
An ocean front residence had been jacked onto 14 ft pilings and blocked with 8 i cks. Another employee noticed the house moving and yelled at Employee #1 that it was falling. Employee #1 was struck a glancing blow from one of the beams suppo rting the house before it came down on his leg. He sustained a broken leg, a bro ken wrist, and a fractured shoulder. n. by 8 in. blocks underneath. On January 15, 1989, the house needed to be moved over about 6 in. Employees were moving the house over and were going to split t he difference on each side. Employee #1 was operating the motor and hydraulic co ntrols for the jacks that were placed on the blocking at the rear of the house. The controls were located on the back of a pickup truck on the front side of the house. Another employee was stacking blocks at the rear of the house. They had just finished putting blocking under beams at the back and were getting ready to stack more blocks. To do so, Employee #1 started the motor that operated the ja
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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