OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #998906
L.H. SOWLES CO.
ROCHESTER, MN·
Event description
Employee injured in fall onto steel beam support
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and two coworkers were working on core walls of an elevator shaft ar ea. Employee #1 had tied about nine bars together inside a wall form that was lo cated above a floor opening. He then climbed onto a wooden guardrail that had be en secured to the wall form using 16-gauge wire. The top rail let go and Employe e #1 fell onto the metal beam support in the floor opening. He was suspended abo ut 12 feet above the subway floor and, if not suspended, would have fallen 18 to 19 feet to the subway floor. Employee #1 suffered two or three fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and a puncture wound to his left side when he struck against f our sharp-edged irons on the metal beam support. He was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 46 M
- Nature of injury
- 18
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 2
- Task assigned
- 1
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