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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14314462

LONGSHORING,HEAD,CRANE BOOM,TRUCK CRANE,WORK RULES,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,CRANE,OVERTURN

Event
LONGSHORING,HEAD,CRANE BOOM,TRUCK CRANE,WORK RULES,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,CRANE,OVERTURN
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14314462
Report ID
317000

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)

  1. #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
  2. #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
  3. #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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