OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14273254
BATH IRON WORKS
BATH, ME·
Event description
Employee killed when head pinned to ship by scaffold
Investigation abstract
A company's change in past practices in supporting a covered scaffold hanging ov er the side of a ship resulted in the supporting brackets being removed in error . Employee #1, who was working within the scaffold, had to reach between the edg e of the scaffold and the side of the ship to loosen a clamp. When he did, the 6 ,000 lb scaffold swung into the side of the ship and pinned Employee 1's head. E mployee #1 died the following day, March 8, 1989.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 20 Male
- Nature of injury
- Amputation (1)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- SQUEEZE POINT ACTION (4)
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- 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.