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Welder Dies After 30-Foot Fall From Steel Structure, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Welder Dies After 30-Foot Fall From Steel Structure, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Fatality Case Reports--Falls
A 31-year-old welder working at a construction site died after falling 30 feet. The victim, along with two co-workers, was on an I-beam structure preparing to weld handrails when the incident occurred. The victim informed his two co-workers that he was going to talk with another person on the crew and left the area. He was wearing a hard hat, full-body safety harness with two shock-absorbing lanyards, and steel-toed shoes. He went down one level and crossed a roped-off area, stepping onto a steel-grate floor. The unsecured flooring moved, and the victim fell 30 feet to the dirt floor below. …
Maintenance Worker Killed In 25-Foot Fall From I-Beam, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Maintenance Worker Killed In 25-Foot Fall From I-Beam, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Fatality Case Reports--Falls
A 25-year-old maintenance worker at a steel distribution company died as the result of a fall from a steel I-beam he had repeatedly climbed to reach the top of a disabled crane. This worker and another had been attempting to repair the crane, and had found it necessary to climb up and down several times for various reasons (see below). Each time the victim had shimmied down and back up the I-beam rather than using the fixed ladder some distance away. When the fall occurred, he was on his way back up and somehow lost his grip on the beam. …
Worker Killed In Fall From Oil Tank, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Worker Killed In Fall From Oil Tank, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Fatality Case Reports--Falls
A 50-year-old male was killed when he fell from the top of a 12-foot high oil tank. The victim was an oil gauger for a company that transports crude oil. His job was to obtain samples of the oil to check its quality. On the day of the incident he was to check the oil at a site located about 100 miles from his office. He was an experienced gauger and had been to this site many times before. This company owned four cylinder-shaped oil tanks. Three of the tanks were 15 feet high and one was 12 feet high …