OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14495568
LABCO CONSTRUCTION INC
PONCA CITY, OK—
Event description
Employee killed in 25 ft fall through roof opening
Investigation abstract
At approximately 11:45 a.m. on April 4, 1985, Employee #1 was cutting the sheetm e not guarded, nor was personal fall protection equipment being used. etal top of a digester into 4-ft by 16-ft sections, with an 8-ft pie-slice-shape d bottom. The approximately 75-ft-diameter roof was 25 ft above a concrete floor and had three existing 4-ft by 8-ft openings. Employee #1 was assisting a cowor ker with a torch, cutting sections one at a time that were then lifted out by a crane. Employee #1 and the coworker had just prepared a section for removal and the crane operator saw Employee #1 walking parallel to the opening as the lift s tarted. He then saw Employee #1 fall through the opening and stopped the lift. E mployee #1 sustained head and internal injuries and was killed. The openings wer
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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