OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14259469
JENSEN CONST CO INC
CHOPIN, LA—
Event description
Employee killed when struck by whaler thrown from scaffold
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was 15 ft below an area in which a crew was tearing out wooden forms (whalers) from a bridge under construction. Two workers on scaffolding were rem oving the whalers, which were composed of two 4 1/2 ft long 2 by 10s and weighed approximately 20 to 30 lb each. One of the workers threw down a whaler that str uck Employee #1 on the back of the neck, crushing the vertebrae in his neck, inj uring his brain stem and spinal cord. Employee #1 was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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