Hispanic Construction Laborer Dies After Portable Silo Collapse - North Carolina: FACE 2002-11

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  A 45-year-old male Hispanic construction laborer (the victim) died after a retractable leg on a portable silo collapsed, causing the silo to fall over and crush him. The silo contained aggregates to mix stucco, which other crew members were applying to chimneys on the roof of newly constructed condominium units. The victim was operating the silo, dumping the aggregates through the silo's chute into a cement mixer to prepare the stucco that was to be applied. A coworker used a forklift to raise the silo off the victim and other workers pulled the victim clear. The victim had a faint pulse. The emergency medical services responded and transported the victim to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Construction Industry
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 4
  • Accident-analysis
  • Construction-workers
  • Work-practices
  • Construction-industry
  • Traumatic-injuries
  • Accident-prevention
  • Injuries
  • Injury-prevention
  • Construction-Search
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Construction ; Hispanic ; Hispanic - Construction ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Construction ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200211
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• 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 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Casini, Virgil J.
• Volume:
  2002
• Issue:
  11
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20022501
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-100555
• 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:
  2003
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  2002/08/22
• Resource Number:
  FACE 2002-11
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167354/cdc_167354_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 245.71 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1ce0bc087a292596d396b44dfd2a7759207302c56b85e50e4d73ea483fe4d6c027bbda9d73716b84b10c130167d43cd770d7e820f2cab0fb6d4b77f9ecf8b259