Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 14232185 - THREE EMPLOYEES STRUCK BY COLLAPSING BUILDING - ONE FATALITY

Accident Summary Nr: 14232185 -- Report ID: 0316400 -- Event Date: 04/25/1989
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
17567280	04/26/1989	1521	0	Joe Roczniak

Abstract: At approximately 2 p.m. on April 25, 1989, three employees were erecting a two-story single family home. It began to rain the employees moved to shelter to wait out the rain, but the intensity of the storm and the force of the wind increased. All three employees left the second floor and had just arrived on the first floor when the force of the wind, estimated to be 75 mph, shifted the first floor walls stud from front to rear collapsing the second floor onto the employees. Employee #1 was killed, and Employees #2 and #3 were hospitalized for fractures.

Keywords: HIGH WIND, COLLAPSE, BUILDING COLLAPSE, CONSTRUCTION

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	17567280	Fatality	Fracture	Occupation not reported
2	17567280	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Occupation not reported
3	17567280	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Occupation not reported

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