Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 514877 - Employee killed in fall from unsecured grating

Accident Summary Nr: 514877 -- Report ID: 0625700 -- Event Date: 04/03/1990
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
110341690	04/04/1990	1791	0	G.T. Contractors

Abstract: Employee #1 and a coworker, both ironworkers, were installing sections of 3 ft wide by 11 ft 8 in. long, 1 1/4 in. thick corrugated grating across support beams of a conveyor transfer tower under construction. The tower was 24 ft square and 81 ft 3 in. high, and the grating was to form a floor or working surface at the 69 ft level. The ends of the grating had been laid across the flange of the support beams and had not yet been secured. Employee #1 stepped on a section of grating, causing the end to slip off the flange of the beam and fall. Employee #1 fell with the grating approximately 69 ft to the concrete. He sustained multiple fractures and was killed.

Keywords: BEAM, FRACTURE, INSTALLING, UNSECURED, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, GRATING, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, TOWER

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	110341690			Fatality	Fracture	Occupation not reported

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