Welder Dies After Being Struck By A Three-Ton Steel Roof Truss–South Carolina

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  A 27-year-old man working as a welder died after being pinned under a 3 ton, 65-foot-long steel roof truss in South Carolina. The victim had worked for a steel erection company for one and a half weeks prior to the accident. The company was contracted to fabricate and erect steel roof trusses for the roof of an airplane hangar. Trusses had been cut in half for shipment to the site. At the work site, 12 trusses had been welded and placed on support beams for the roof of the hangar. One half of a truss was being lifted with a crane. When the crane cable contained enough slack, the victim loosened the chokers and slid them outwards toward the truss ends. The truss half tipped and fell toward him, pinning him against a pile of tubular steel. He was pronounced dead at the scene
  
  his death was due to massive crushing chest injuries. It was recommended that materials being lifted or positioned by a crane or other lifting machine be supported at all times, that access and egress routes at a work site be free from unnecessary materials, and that ways to perform all tasks be evaluated during pre-job planning to arrive at the safest work environment.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety Welding
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Construction-Search Construction-workers FACE-96-11 Materials-handling OSHA Region 4 Traumatic-injuries Welders
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Manufacturing ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE9611
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  South 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:
  3 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00232287
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB97-111207
• 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:
  1996
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1996/02/29
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:bd515f4feb116e8635ff228387e04c81423ec5850b6c75541db5c9d9d98860a6126b415a0781004eca5a9e5257241177e92e12f6c94ed89e4a5413c1852e90ac
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167427/cdc_167427_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 238.63 KB ]