Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 846030 - Employee killed, three injured when platform collapses

Accident Summary Nr: 846030 -- Report ID: 0521100 -- Event Date: 09/09/1994
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
122484702	09/09/1994	1711	0	August Winter & Sons Inc
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
122484694	09/09/1994	1541	0	C. R. Meyer & Sons Co.

Abstract: Employees #1 through #4 were dismantling several tiers of a permanent platform structure on the front of a paper machine. The employees disconnected the lateral supports, causing the steel support I-beam column anchor bolt to become overstressed. Employee #1 was killed; Employees #2, #3 and #4 were hospitalized.

Keywords: SHOULDER, WORK RULES, MILLWRIGHT, BOLT, CHEST, FRACTURE, DISMANTLING, COLLAPSE, CONSTRUCTION, FALL

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	122484702	Fatality	Fracture	Supervisors; plumbers, pipefitters & steamfitters
2	122484694	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Millwrights
3	122484694	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Millwrights
4	122484694	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Millwrights

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