OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #966655
STRUCK BY,WORK RULES,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,INATTENTION,OVERTURN,TRUSS,PINNED,CONSTRUCTION
Event description
Employee killed when struck by roof trusses
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a cement finisher, was standing on a concrete house foundation pad, 30 to 40 ft from a road. An employee of a truss contractor came around a curve in the road driving a Dynalift D4P80, model 584, with a load of six suspended ro of trusses. As the Dynalift's two left wheels ran over an elevated concrete gara ge pad, the two right wheels maintained contact with the road surface. This caus ed the roof trusses to start to swing. The Dynalift toppled onto its right side and the roof trusses struck Employee #1 in the head and then fell across his che st, pinning him under 1,100 lb of wood. He was killed.
Victims (3)
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#1 Fatality Age 41 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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#982 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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