OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14196034
ARTHUR PHILLIPS & COMPANY
BALTIMORE, MD—
Event description
TWO EMPLOYEES INJURED IN STRUCTURAL STEEL COLLAPSE
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and Employee #2 were setting and bolting a 60-foot-long steel truss on top of two 30-foot steel columns. The crane load line was disconnected. A str ong gust of wind blew the truss and columns over. Employee #1 remained on top of the falling truss until the truss was approximately 12 feet from the ground. He fell off the truss, striking his face and nose on the ground. Employee #2 rode the truss to the ground and was thrown into the webbing of the truss, resulting in a sprained right ankle. Neither employee was wearing a safety device as allow ed by steel erection standards.
Victims (2)
-
#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 20
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 4
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 9
- Part of body
- 9
- Event type
- 4
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.