Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200553667 - Employee Struck by I-Beam

Accident Summary Nr: 200553667 -- Report ID: 0625700 -- Event Date: 12/07/2004
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
307598235	12/08/2004	1622	237310	Boh Brothers Construction Llc

Abstract: At approximately 2:45 p.m. on December 7, 2004, Employee #1, an engineering technician and part of a ten-man crew working for Boh Brothers Construction LLC in Baton Rouge, LA, was setting an I-beam for the construction of a bridge. The I-beam was 91 ft long, 16.5 in. wide, 41 in. high, weighed 10 tons and had a camber of 0.875-in. The crew was using a pair of two in. diameter by seventeen ft long wire rope slings as choker hitches to make the lift. At the time of the incident, one end of the I-beam had been temporarily set on shoring located near its final attachment point while the other end was held aloft by a crane. Employee #1 was sitting along side the end of the I-beam being supported by the shoring when the I-beam rolled within the choker hitches and struck him. Employee #1 was killed as a result of his injuries.

Keywords: BEAM, CHEST, CONSTRUCTION, SHORING, STRUCK BY, BRIDGE, CHOKER, CRANE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Bridge		New project or new addition		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	307598235			Fatality	Other	Engineering technicians, n.e.c.	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Erecting structural steel Fatality Cause: Lifting operations

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