OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14327795
CERES CORPORATION
BALTIMORE, MD·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by bundle of railroad rails
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was removing the chocks from an unstable stack of 60 ft steel railro ad rails. Four bundles of three rails each were being hoisted at one time by a f orklift, each bundle weighing 700 lb. During a lift, one of the bundles became c aught up in the stack by a heading wire and eventually fell from the forks. It i s not known if this bundle struck Employee #1 when it fell, or if the rails turn ed on their sides or were hoisted on their sides, swung several feet and struck him. Employee #1 died of head, back, and leg injuries.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 55 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 15
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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