OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1001767
AMERICAN CONCRETE INC.
DES MOINES, IA—
Event description
STRUCK IN THE CHEST BY A FALLING BOARD
Investigation abstract
On August 1, 1985, employee #1, a concrete driver, was delivering a load to a co nstruction site. He went under a scaffold being torn down without wearing a hard hat. For some reason, he took cover in a basement window. He was struck in he c hest by a falling board. He was taken to a hospital on a back board by the fire department. Employee #1 suffered bruised ribs.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 804
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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