OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14470199
GARRETT ELECTRONICS INC
DILLSBURG, PA—
Event description
BUILDING COLLAPSE
Investigation abstract
ON 30 MARCH 1984 AT ABOUT 10AM IN A BUILDING 38'X100'81/2', A FACTORY FOR ELECTR INJURIES, #3 HAD GLASS IN EYE (BROKEN FLOURECENT TUBE), #2 WAS STRUCK BY AN OBJE CT AND RECEIVEDHEAD AND WRIST INJURIES, #5 AND #4 WERE SENT TO THE HOSPITAL BUT RECEIVED NO TREATMENT. IC COMPUTER CABLE; SIX WORKERS WERE PERFORMING THEIR REGULAR TASKS. #2,#3, WERE ALONG ALONG THE WEST WALL WORKING AT THEIR MACHINES, #4 WAS ALONG THE SOUTH WALL SETTING UP HIS MACHINE TO OPERATE, AN EMPLOYEE NOT INJURED WAS ENTERING FROM TH E SOUTH EAST CORNER AND #1 WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BUILDING AS THE INSPECTOR. # 1 HAD THE PRODUCT ON A HEAVY DUTY TABLE. SUDDENLY THE ROOF CAVED IN. IT WAS A DO MINO EFFECT FROM SOUTH TO NORTH. THE CAVE IN WAS DOWN THE CENTER. THE BLOCK WALL S HELD UP THE ENDS OF THE RAFTERS WHILE THE MIDDLE SECTION OF EACH RAFTER CAVED IN THE FLOOR. #1 WAS KNOCKED UNDER THE TABLE AND RECEIVED CONCUSSION AND SPINAL
Victims (5)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 39 F
- Nature of injury
- 9
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#3 Non-hospitalized injury Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 11
- Part of body
- 8
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 20
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Task assigned
- 1
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#4 Non-hospitalized injury Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 11
- Part of body
- 8
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 20
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#5 Non-hospitalized injury Age 20 F
- Nature of injury
- 11
- Part of body
- 8
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 20
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Task assigned
- 1
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