OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14264360
EQUIPMENT FAILURE,LEG,WIRE ROPE,BOOM,PINNED,BROKEN CABLE,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY
Event description
Employee hospitalized when struck by falling boom cable
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a foreman, was approximately 53 ft above ground level on a bridge/o verpass flagging a crane. As Employee #1 was landing a load of rebar the boom ho ist cable snapped and his right leg trapped between the boom and the bridge. He required hospitalization.
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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