OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221598832

SOUTHWESTERN CONSTRUCTION SERVICES INC

O FALLON, IL— 2023-09-07T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Commercial Building, Concrete Floor, Concrete Surface, Construction, Construction vehicle, Contusion, Crane Load, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Head, Installing, Insufficient Supervision, Material Handling, Rigging, Scissor lift, Truss, Work Surface
NAICS: 238130
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346963614
Employer profile: SOUTHWESTERN CONSTRUCTION SERVICES INC
Summary number: 221598832
Report ID: 0524530
Project type: A
Construction end-use: H

Event description

Employee dies from head trauma in fall while setting trusses

Investigation abstract

At 2:30 p.m. on September 7, 2023, an employee working as a carpenter for a scissor lift and climbed onto one of the trusses without fall protection. He fell approximately 20 feet to a concrete surface below and died from head trauma. construction contractor was working on a crew of with 5 coworkers setting 80-foot-long metal-connected wood trusses. The crew was working on a 250-foot by 80-foot new warehouse building constructed of masonry block walls. The employee worked with a coworker outside the building rigging trusses to fly in by crane. The bottom cords were approximately 20 feet above the concrete floor. The crew used either Genie 3232 or JCB S26 scissor lifts to access the elevated trusses for installation. The weather conditions were sunny and dry. The employee had set 21 trusses 4 feet apart from each other. The employee climbed out of a

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 23 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
567

Fall distance
22

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