Accident Report Detail
Accident Summary Nr: 149263.015 - Employee Is Killed While Grouting When Structure Collapses
Inspection Nr | Date Opened | SIC | NAICS | Establishment Name |
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1618394.015 | 08/31/2022 | 238120 | High Company Llc |
Abstract: At 2:00 p.m. on August 30, 2022, an employee who worked as an iron worker was gr outing joints at a manfacturing plant construction site. The employee was in the process of completing caulking tasks related to the setting of precast concrete pieces. The employee and his coworkers, also iron workers, had set four concret e roof slabs when the employee noticed the beam that the slabs were setting on s tarted to roll. The employee got back into the JLG just as another coworker (th e Foreman) told everyone to get out of the room. About that time, the four colum ns supporting an interior wall and the adjacent four roof slabs collapsed. The e mployee was on the east side grouting when the structure collapsed and was crush ed and killed.
End Use | Project Type | Project Cost | Stories | Non-building Height | Fatality | ||
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Manufacturing plant | New project or new addition | 1 | X |
Employee # | Inspection Nr | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature of Injury | Occupation | Construction |
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1 | 1618394.015 | 31 | M | Fatality | Strctural Iron /& Steel Worker | Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Erecting structural steel Fatality Cause: |