Fourteen-Foot Fall Kills Ironworker at a Massachusetts Construction Site

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• Corporate Authors:
  Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE) ; Massachusetts. Department of Public Health
• Description:
  On January 7, 1999 a 30-year-old male ironworker died of injuries sustained in a fall at a Massachusetts construction site. The victim was walking a beam that had bolt kegs attached to it and lost his balance, falling approximately fourteen feet to the ground below. A connector working on the second level immediately yelled for help. A call was placed by for emergency assistance. The victim was transported to a nearby hospital emergency room where he was officially pronounced dead. The MA FACE Program concluded that to prevent similar future occurrences, steel erector employers should: 1. Provide appropriate anchor points for employees throughout all phases of the construction. 2. Design, develop and implement a comprehensive site-specific fall protection plan. 3. Use square bolt kegs that fit flush inside the web of the column.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Ferrous Compounds Metal Workers Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Injuries Injury-prevention Iron-workers OSHA Region 1 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Protective-measures Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Steelworkers Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Falls ; Falls - Construction - Commercial
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE99MA002
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028492
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2010-115332
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 99MA002, 1999 Jul ; :1-7
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Performing Organization:
  Massachusetts Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1992/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:46d1f095b8b21b502c882c4e1a792d5bfdd18c12ef1383d39a6524aa164f4141eee9e7eae970eec014bc8753c883c443e30b8b42da7bdb0dd40afcd71c557162
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166604/cdc_166604_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 88.61 KB ]