OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14194989
GEBHARDT, INC.
NORTH BEACH, MD·
Event description
EMPLOYEE STRUCK BY FALLING CRANE BOOM JIB
Investigation abstract
SEVERAL EMPLOYEES WERE LAYING OVAL CONCRETE PIPE SECTIONS FOR USE IN A STORM DRA STORED JIB FELL FROM ITS CRADLE UNDER THE BOOM AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE #1 ON THE HEA D AND SHOULDER. HE RECEIVED A BROKEN COLLAR BONE AND LACERATIONS TO HIS HEAD. TH E CRANE IS A GROVE HYDRAULIC CRANE, MODEL #TM 225T, SERIAL #651097. IN. A GROVE HYDRAULIC TRUCK CRANE WAS BEING USED TO LOWER THE PIPE SECTIONS INTO PLACE. THE CRANE'S JIB WAS NOT BEING USED ON THIS JOB. INSTEAD, IT WAS SECURED IN ITS STORAGE LOCATION ON THE BOTTOM OF THE CRANE BOOM. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS OPERATI NG THE BACKHOE DURING THE PIPE-LAYING OPERATION. WHEN THE LAST SECTION OF PIPE W AS EMPLACED, EMPLOYEE #1 SHUT DOWN HIS BACKHOE AND WALKED TO THE CRANE. THE CRAN E'S BOOM WAS POSITIONED OVER THE TRUCK PART OF THE CRANE, AT ABOUT AN 80 DEGREE ANGLE. EMPLOYEE #1 CLIMBED ONTO THE TRUCK SECTION, BEHIND THE TRUCK CAB, TO DISC ONNECT A WIRE ROPE SLING FROM THE LOAD HOOK. WHEN HE DISCONNECTED THE SLING THE
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 47 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 21
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 853
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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