Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202346706 - Garage collapse kills three and injures one Employee

Accident Summary Nr: 202346706 -- Report ID: 0352450 -- Event Date: 11/15/2002
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
306025628	11/15/2002	1771	238120	C P Buckner Steel Erection Inc

Abstract: Employee's #1, #2, #3, and #4 were setting pre-cast concrete double tee-beams at the seventh level of a parking garage. The garage is rectangular, approximately 354 ft by 118 ft, and seven stories high. A center pre-cast column slid down the south face of a cast in place pier after the pier failed and two bays of the garage collapsed. Employee's #1, #2, and #3 were killed. Employee #4 was hospitalized with multiple fractures.

Keywords: FRACTURE, COLLAPSE, PINNED, CONCRETE BEAM, CAUGHT BETWEEN, CRUSHED, PRECAST, STRUCK BY, CONCRETE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition		$5,000,000 to $20,000,000	7	82	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	306025628	Fatality	Fracture	Structural metal workers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Installation Of Decking-Initial Laying Deck (Incl Fatality Cause: Collapse of structure
2	306025628	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Structural metal workers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Installation Of Decking-Initial Laying Deck (Incl Fatality Cause: Collapse of structure
3	306025628	Fatality	Fracture	Structural metal workers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Installation Of Decking-Initial Laying Deck (Incl Fatality Cause: Collapse of structure
4	306025628	Fatality	Fracture	Structural metal workers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Installation Of Decking-Initial Laying Deck (Incl Fatality Cause: Collapse of structure

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