Carpenter Falls 62 Feet to His Death While Attempting to Enter a Personnel Basket at a Bridge Construction Site in Maryland

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A 30 year old male carpenter employed by a heavy construction company died when he fell 62 feet while trying to enter a personnel basket. The company had been contracted to build a bridge over a waterway. The victim was working inside the form for a concrete pier, installing spacer blocks between the reinforcing steel and the form. He had run out of spacers and needed to return to the ground to obtain more. A crane operator swung a stripping basket, also used to transport personnel, to the form. As it was slowing to a stop, the basket struck the form, causing the basket to move away from the form. The victim, standing on the 8 inch flange on top of the form, lost his balance while reaching for the basket and fell 62 feet to the concrete footing below. The cause of death was head injuries. It was recommended that employers ensure that established safety procedures are followed at all times
  
  that employers conduct scheduled and unscheduled safety inspections regularly
  
  and that employers conduct a thorough evaluation of accessing piers to determine the safest method.
  
  
• Content Notes:
  Publication date provided by the authoring office. There is no publication date indicated on the resource.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Nervous System Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Construction-industry Construction-Search Construction-workers FACE-90-23 Head-injuries OSHA Region 3 Traumatic-injuries
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Falls ; Falls - Construction - Commercial
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE9023
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  3 pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00206133
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB92-184100
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 90-23, 1990 Jul ; :1-6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1990
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1990/01/26
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1a6d404d4fecb4ae933e48e1be552cafeb795b5206f3bd0c183ba84b9bb6795322ffbb7f13ea4af9df61a6aa3674108b91515a0cff45dc8f3bda9e64619f41a5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/164344/cdc_164344_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 255.26 KB ]