OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14517452
COPELAND STEEL ERECTORS, INC.
JACKSONVILLE, FL—
Event description
IMPALED AFTER FALL FROM GIRDER
Investigation abstract
Three ironworkers were connecting sheeting girts on a coal silo bay wall. They h ird employee grabbed and hung on to a diagonal I beam adjacent to the girt. Empl oyee #2 sustained strained muscles under his arm, and the third employee escaped uninjured. No nets were in area under employees. The floor on the north side of the silo bay wall, 26 feet below, was not decked. The area to the south was a p ipe chase open all the way to the ground. ad just connected one girt, and employee #2 and the third employee stepped back onto a previously erected girt. They were preparing to move up and hang another girt. Employee #1 stepped onto the girt. The single temporary set-up bolt on tha t end of the girt sheared, and the end of the girt dropped. Employee #1 fell app roximately 71 feet and landed on protruding rebar in a trench on the south side of the wall on which they had been working. Employee #1 sustained multiple injur ies resulting from the fall, from beams on the way down and impalement in the st omach on the rebar. These injuries resulted in his death. Employee #2 and the th
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 20
- Part of body
- 21
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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