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Accident: 118857.015 - Employee Is Killed When Struck By Falling Panel
Accident: 118857.015 -- Report ID: 0855610 -- Event Date: 08/08/2019 | |||||||
| Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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| 1422426.015 | 08/09/2019 | Cold Storage Construction Services, Inc | |||||
| At 9:05 a.m. on August 8, 2019, Employee #1, employed by a construction company, was working at a multiemployer construction project, a two-story cold storage facility. He was directing the installation of cold storage panels to a wall, which involved raising the panels 16 feet with a 55-ton Terex Crane. The panels, each weighing approximately 490 pounds and measuring approximately 49 feet long, 42 inches wide, and 3 inches thick, were attached to the crane by a bail. However, the bail was not properly screwed into one panel, and as that panel was lifted, it came loose and fell. The falling panel struck Employee #1's head. The employee, who was not wearing a hard hat, was killed. | |||||||
Keywords:
panel, struck by, unsecured, wall, aerial lift, construction, fracture, installing, head, hard hat, falling object, crane, brain, unsecured panel, skull, ppe
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| End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
| Commercial building | Alteration or rehabilitation | 2 | 40 | X | |||
| Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
| 1 | 1422426.015 | 58 | M | Fatality | Other | Construction laborers | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: FatCause: Struck by falling object/projectile |