Steel Connector Dies After Falling 19 Feet From a Bridge Under Construction to the Highway Below in Indiana

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  A 28-year-old male steel connector (victim) died of injuries sustained from a 19-foot fall from a bridge under construction. The victim was a member of a crew setting steel beams onto two concrete bridge pillars of a highway overpass. After the steel beams were positioned on the pillars by a crane, the victim and a second steel connector bolted the beams to flange plates incorporated into the design of the bridge pillars. Each connector was working from a platform placed between two beams, on top of the beams' lower flanges. The crew was setting the third beam across the pillars when the incident occurred. As the beam was being lowered, the victim attempted to push it into place. The platform on which the victim was standing gave way, causing the victim to fall to the highway below. The victim was transported to the hospital where he died the next day.
• Content Notes:
  Publication Date supplied by FACE program
  
  date does not appear on report.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Metal Workers Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Construction-Search Injuries Injury-prevention Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-practices Safety-programs Steel-industry Steelworkers Traumatic-injuries

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• 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/NIOSHFACE9204
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Indiana ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:
  5 pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025844
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-102145
• Citation:
  Morgantown, : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1992
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/11
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9a9cd7d384f8974a43564a5c4db14540d177f94dea924177bf428b56fb915efd0fef3c5a2aa759e87342e7d44e9f2734ad96c9ecb287cb65ded9a24bb90dfca5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167297/cdc_167297_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 21.00 KB ]