OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #966606

MCCARTHY WESTERN CONSTRUCTORS,INC.

INDIAN WELLS, CA· 1987-11-12T00:00:00

Event: CONCRETE FORM WORK, HEAD, SHOULDER, HEMORRHAGE, CONSTRUCTION, STRUCK BY, FALLING OBJECT
NAICS: 000000
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #100966589
Employer profile: MCCARTHY WESTERN CONSTRUCTORS,INC.
Summary number: 966606
Report ID: 931700

Event description

Employee struck by falling concrete formwork later dies

Investigation abstract

On November 12, 1987, Employee #1, a laborer working with a carpenter crew doing cleanup work after concrete forms had been stripped, was struck on the head and shoulders by falling formwork. The formwork, which consisted of 3/4 in. plywood and 2 in. by 4 in. and 4 in. by 4 in. wood bracing, fell 13 ft 5 in. Employee # 1 was hospitalized on that day, lapsed into a coma on November 18, 1987, and die d on December 4, 1987, from head injuries complicated by subdural and intracereb ral hemorrhaging.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 52 M

Nature of injury
6

Part of body
13

Event type
1

Source
8

Occupation code
999

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
6

Task assigned
1

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