Accident Report Detail

Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 109279.015 - Employee Fractures Arm When Struck By Dropped Block

**Accident: 109279.015 -- Report ID: 0950614 -- Event Date: 08/27/2018**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1347311.015	09/19/2018		Mike Owen Fabrication, Inc.

At 9:00 a.m. on August 27, 2018, an employee was working to install a steel beam in the basement level of an elevator shaft. A coworker was working five stories above him installing wooden blocks (four inches by ten inches by twelve inches) . At some point, the coworker dropped a block that fell five stories and through a crack in the floor and struck the employee on the arm. The employee received an arm fracture when the block stuck him.

Keywords: arm, blocks, falling object, fracture, installing, steel beam, struck by

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Other building		New project or new addition

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1347311.015	55	M	Hospitalized injury		Welders and cutters	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Steel Erection Of Open Web Steel Joists-Bolting-Up FatCause:

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