OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14314462
LONGSHORING,HEAD,CRANE BOOM,TRUCK CRANE,WORK RULES,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,CRANE,OVERTURN
Event description
Employee killed by falling crane boom
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was in the vicinity of an 80 ton Grove hydraulic truck crane that wa s hoisting six pallets of fruit from a vessel to the shore in a longshoring carg o handling operation. The crane tipped over and the crane boom fell to the groun d, striking the back of Employee #1's head and killing him.
Victims (3)
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#1 Fatality Age 60 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- 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
-
#982 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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