OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221529928

TECHNICAL ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION SERVICES TECS, LLC

ARLINGTON, VA— 2022-12-09T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Brain, Commercial Building, Concrete, Construction, Falling Object, Head, Lack of Engineering Controls, Metal Bar, Skull, Struck By, Testing, Unprotected
NAICS: 541330
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346389737
Employer profile: TECHNICAL ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION SERVICES TECS, LLC
Summary number: 221529928
Report ID: 0355114
Project type: A
Construction end-use: C

Event description

Employee dies of head trauma when struck by falling crowbar

Investigation abstract

At 7:30 p.m. on December 9, 2022, an employee who worked as as an Engineering Technician for an engineering services firm was testing concrete on the new addition of a commercial building. A ten pound metal crowbar fell from one of the floors of the structure and struck the employee in the head. The employee incurred blunt force trauma injuries and was killed.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 50 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
216

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