OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14465116
GEIGER & PETERS INC
LAFAYETTE, IN—
Event description
PRECAST CONCRETE PANEL FELL ON EMPLOYEES.
Investigation abstract
ON APRIL 11, 1984, AT 3:30 - 3:45 PM, EMPLOYEES #1,2, AND 3 WERE PLACING CRIBBIN E #3 WAS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE CRIBBING OPERATION AND WAS PINNED UNDER THE PA NEL. HE SUFFERED A BROKEN CLAVICLE AND A NECK LACERATION. THE PANEL HAD BEEN LEF T STANDING UPRIGHT , UNSECURED, ON SOFT SOIL WHILE THE EMPLOYEE'S ATTENTION WAS FOCUSED ON THE CRIBBING OPERATION. THE CRANE OUTRIGGER HAD NOT BEEN SUPPORTED PR OPERLY FOR THE EXISTING SOIL CONDITIONS. G FOR SUPPORT OF AN OUTRIGGER ON A GROVE CRANE, SERIAL NUMBER 33674, MODEL RT 65 5, WHEN THEY WERE STRUCK BY A FALLING PRECAST CONCRETE PANEL WEIGHING 21,372 POU NDS. THE PANEL WAS BEING SET ON THE EAST WALL OF THE BUILDING , BUT HAD TEMPORAR ILY BEEN PLACED ON THE GROUND, AND SUPPORTED AGAINST THE BUILDING STEEL WHILE TH E CRIBBING WAS BEING COMPLETED. EMPLOYEE #1 HAD BEEN PICKING UP CRIBBING MATERIA L AND WAS NEAR THE CENTER OF THE PANEL WHEN IT FELL ON HIM, CAUSING FATAL HEAD I NJURIES. EMPLOYEE #2 WAS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE CRIBBING OPERATION AND WAS PUS HED 10 - 15 FEET TO THE NORTHEAST, SUFFERING ABRASIONS ON HIS RIGHT ARM. EMPLOYE
Victims (3)
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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#3 Non-hospitalized injury Age 50 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 21
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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