Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170155576 - Employee injured when steel canopy beams collapse

Accident Summary Nr: 170155576 -- Report ID: 0950645 -- Event Date: 11/21/1990
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
112216726	11/26/1990	1542	0	R & R Steel, Inc.

Abstract: Employee #1 and a coworker were 17 ft 2 in. above the ground, adjusting some steel beams for the skeletal structure of a gas station canopy. They had removed part of what was holding the beams in place, and instead were using sheet-metal-type clamps to hold them. When the bolts sheared, Employee #1 was not able to control the beams with a spud and the canopy collapsed. The coworker fell into a pile of soft dirt and was not injured. Employee #1 fell onto a wooden packing crate and suffered a ruptured spleen. Neither employee was wearing fall protection. There was no erection procedure at the site, nor was there any fall protection equipment. None of the employees interviewed had received any safety training that they could relate to DOSH, and none, including the supervisors, knew what constituted a code of safe work practices, nor had they seen one.

Keywords: STEEL BEAM, SPLEEN, COLLAPSE, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, RUPTURE, BOLT, FALL, FALL PROTECTION

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	112216726			Hospitalized injury	Other	Supervisors, n.e.c.

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