OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14223168
ABLE ASSOCIATED ENTERPRISES
CRANE, IN—
Event description
EMPLOYEE WAS THROWN OFF CONCRETE FLOOR
Investigation abstract
At approximately 10:33 a.m., on July 11, 1984, Employee #1 was assisting another employee using a core drilling machine. They were drilling four inch diameter h oles in a concrete floor. The holes were twenty-feet-two-inches above another co ncrete floor. The floor edge was guarded only by a one inch manila rope fastened to one-and-three-quarter-inch black pipe. The rope was twenty-feet-forty-two-in ches high and very slack. The core drilling machine jammed throwing Employee #1 off the concrete floor he was standing on. He landed on the concrete floor twent y-feet-two-inches below. Employee #1 was killed instantly due a skull fracture a nd internal injuries.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 21
- Occupation code
- 569
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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