OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14253264
AMERICAN CRANE CORP
WILMINGTON, NC·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by falling crane boom
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was disassembling the inner boom from the center section of a truck crane. While standing under the boom, Employee #1 removed the retaining pins, ca using the boom to collapse. Employee #1 was struck and killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 Male
- Nature of injury
- Bruise/Contus/Abras (3)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- HOISTING APPARATUS (24)
- Occupation
- Heavy equipment mechanics (516)
- Human factor
- MALFUNC IN SECURING/WARNING OP (4)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.