OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221583677

LOS TORRES CONSTRUCTION, LLC

DETROIT, MI— 2023-06-15T00:00:00

Event: Collapse, Cooling Tower, Crushed, Demolition, Falling Object, Head, Struck By, Support Posts
NAICS: 238910
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346773401
Employer profile: LOS TORRES CONSTRUCTION, LLC
Summary number: 221583677
Report ID: 0552651
Project type: B
Construction end-use: B

Event description

Employee is killed when crushed by collapsed tower

Investigation abstract

At 8:15 a.m. on June 15, 2023, an employee was demolishing a cooling tower located on the roof of a building with an angle grinder. The employee cut away one angle iron and began to cut a second angle iron when the cooling tower began to fall. As he ran towards the cooling tower, the tower collapsed onto him, he sustained unspecified crushing head injuries. The employee was killed.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 33 M

Event type
1

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