OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221492630

HIGH COMPANY LLC

CHAMBERSBURG, PA— 2022-08-30T00:00:00

Event: Aerial Lift, Building, Building Collapse, Commercial Building, Construction, Construction vehicle, Crushed, Falling Object, Iron Worker, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Multi-employer Worksite, Multiemployer, Steel, Steel Beam, Steel Erection, Structural Collapse, Torso
NAICS: 238120
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346183940
Employer profile: HIGH COMPANY LLC
Summary number: 221492630
Report ID: 0316700
Project type: A
Construction end-use: D

Event description

Employee is killed while grouting when structure collapses

Investigation abstract

At 2:00 p.m. on August 30, 2022, an employee who worked as an iron worker was collapsed and was crushed and killed. grouting joints at a manfacturing plant construction site. The employee was in the process of completing caulking tasks related to the setting of precast concrete pieces. The employee and his coworkers, also iron workers, had set four concrete roof slabs when the employee noticed the beam that the slabs were setting on started to roll. The employee got back into the JLG just as another coworker (the Foreman) told everyone to get out of the room. About that time, the four columns supporting an interior wall and the adjacent four roof slabs collapsed. The employee was on the east side grouting when the structure

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 31 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
7051

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