OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14557359
BRADBURY & STAMM
SANTA FE, NM—
Event description
Employee killed when struck by falling floor sections
Investigation abstract
At 3:00 p.m. on October 10, 1984, Employee #1 was installing rebar in soft cemen t. He was working under a steel frame that was to be the roof of a garage for th e El Dorado Hotel when three sections of prestressed concrete flooring fell 20 f t from the steel frame. Employee #1 was killed. Two iron workers jumped from the falling roof to the fourth section and escaped injury. The frame was not suppor ted in a way to prevent it from separating, and the outer column was supported o nly by a single horizontal beam at the 20 ft level. The flooring fell as a fourt h section was being positioned by a crane.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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