OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14251623
YEARGIN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY INC
ELKIN, NC—
Event description
EMPLOYEE SUFFERED BROKEN ARM IN 23 FOOT FALL FROM PLATFORM
Investigation abstract
AT 2:30 PM ON APRIL 24, 1986, EMPLOYEE #1 AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE INSTALLING P D FELL TO A FINISHED CONCRETE SURFACE AT GROUND LEVEL. THE EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A B ROKEN ARM. THE EMPLOYEE AND HIS FOREMAN LATER SAID THAT THEY ALWAYS TIED OFF WHE N IT WAS POSSIBLE TO DO SO. HOWEVER, AN EXPERIENCED IRONWORKER WHO HAD 4 TIMES T HE FOREMAN'S EXPERIENCE SAID THAT THE JOB SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE DIFFERENTLY (THE EMPLOYEE COULD HAVE, AND SHOULD HAVE, TIED OFF). THE EMPLOYER HAS SPECIFIC GUID ELINES FOR ALL CRAFTS EXCEPT IRONWORKERS. THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE SPECIFIC G UIDEANCE FOR INEXPERIENCED IRONWORKERS. (EMPLOYEE #1 HAD 4 MONTHS ON THE JOB.) LATFORM GRATING AT THE 22 FOOT LEVEL AT A WASTE FUEL STRUCTURE. THEY HAD CUT THE GRATING TO THE PROPER LENGTH AND EMPLOYEE #1 WAS PREPARING TO MEASURE FOR A NOT CH THAT WOULD BE PLACED AROUND A POST. EMPLOYEE #1 UNHOOKED HIS SAFETY BELT AND STEPPED ON THE GRATE TO TAKE A MEASUREMENT AND TO TOSS A PIECE THAT HE HAD JUST CUT UP TO THE NEXT LEVEL. HE BELIEVED THAT THE PIECE ON WHICH HE WAS WALKING ON WAS RESTING ON THREE CROSS MEMBERS, WHEN IN FACT IT WAS RESTING ON TWO. THE PIEC E OF GRATING PIVOTED AND TURNED OVER, CAUSING EMPLOYEE #1 TO FALL 10 FEET TO THE GRATING AT THE NEXT LOWER LEVEL. THE EMPLOYEE LANDED FEET FIRST, BOUNCED OFF AN
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 17
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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