OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14327829
ITO CORPORATION OF BALTIMORE
BALTIMORE, MD·
Event description
Longshoreman killed in fall from pier to water
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working as a pierman. He was hooking nylon straps to a 40-ft adj ustable spreader used to hoist drafts lumber onto a ship. The cargo had been bro ught to the ship on a mafi trailer. As Employee #1 was stepping down from the ma fi, he stumbled, took several steps, and fell into the water between the ship an d the pier. He was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 41 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 41
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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