OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14296073
EJECTED,ROPE,STRUCK AGAINST,BROKEN CABLE,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,COMMUNICATION
Event description
Employee killed when cable reel rope breaks
Investigation abstract
On November 21, 1985, Employee #1 was part of a work crew that was pulling alumi ttached the line to the rope and the rope to the cable, he gave the signal to st art the pulling machine. Employee #1 was then told that the tie line had not bee n removed from the pulling rope. Employee #1 apparently misunderstood the messag e; he ran over to the slack pulling rope and tried to pull down on it to get eno ugh slack to free the tie line. Tension was being put on the pulling rope at the same time, causing the tie line to break. The tension was then transferred to t he slack part of the rope, which catapulted Employee #1 9 meters in the air. He fell back into the cable machine and was killed. num electric cable with a power-operated reel to which a 19-millimeter-diameter nylon rope was attached. The rope was unreeled from the spool through pulleys up to a crossarm on a wooden utility pole, across eight poles to the last pole, an d then down to the aluminum cable. The cable was held on a spool-mounted tension machine that provided resistance against which the pulling machine (Pengo Model No. TRCP-60 ) worked. The pulling machine rope was secured to the last pole wit h a tie line to prevent the rope from slipping back toward the pulling machine. The rope was then attached to the cable by kellum grips. After Employee #1 had a
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 51 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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