OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #970400
WEYHER BROTHERS CO
MAGNA, UT·
Event description
Employee injured when struck by falling objects
Investigation abstract
Two employees were moving a pump on a monorail with a chain block and carriage. The monorail had been cut off for construction work. When the carriage reached t he end of the monorail it came off the monorail and the chain block and carriage fell 35 ft. The block struck Employee #1 on his hard hat and knocked it off. Th e carriage fell and struck Employee #1 on head and shoulder. He sustained cuts o n his head and shoulder. Employee #1 was taken to Pioneer Valley Hospital, then to University Hospital.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 585
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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