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Accident: 14332274 - Struck By Adjacent Column

Accident: 14332274 -- Report ID: 0418100 -- Event Date: 05/14/1985
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
216684105/14/19851771Tri-Bentley Constructors, Inc.
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
216683305/14/19851542Pepper Southern, Inc.
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
216682505/14/19851791Eastern Steel Erectors, Inc.
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
216685805/14/19851791Colt Construction Company, Inc.
EMPLOYEE #1 AND HIS SUPERVISOR EMPLOYEE #2 WERE ERECTING VERTICAL COLUMNS (STEEL). EMPLOYEE #1 WAS SITTING NEAR A FOOTING ON WHICH A STEEL COLUMN WOULD BE SET AND EMPLOYEE #2 WAS STANDING NEARBY. ALL EMPLOYEES FROM ANOTHER WORKSITE SLID DOWN THE ADJACENT COLUMN WHICH HAD JUST BEEN SET. THE COLUMN THEN FELL AND STRUCK BOTH EMPLOYEE #1 AND #2. EMPLOYEE #1 HAD HIS LEG SERVERED BELOW THE KNEE. EMPLOYEE #2 HAD INJURIES TO HIS HAND. THE COLUMN WAY APPARENTLY NOT FULLY BOLTED WITH FULLY THREADED NUTS ON THE ANCHOR BOLT.
Keywords: column, building, collapse, struck by, erection process, iron worker, construction, steel erection
Employee # Inspection Age Sex Degree Nature Occupation
1 2166841 Occupation Not Listed
2 2166833 Occupation Not Listed
3 2166825 Hospitalized injury Cut/Laceration Occupation not reported
4 2166825 Hospitalized injury Amputation Occupation not reported
5 2166858 Occupation Not Listed

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