OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14339451

HEAD,WALL,CRANE CAB,CRUSHED,CRANE

1985-02-28T00:00:00

Event: HEAD,WALL,CRANE CAB,CRUSHED,CRANE
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14339451
Report ID: 453710

Event description

CRUSHED BETWEEN MOVING CRANE AND WALL

Investigation abstract

An electric utility employee was boarding a moving bridge crane in a nuclear rea ctor containment building. He failed to clear a projecting wall that angled in t oward path of crane travel, and his head was crushed between a junction box on t he wall and the crane superstructure. The employee died of his injuries.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 31 M

Nature of injury
21

Part of body
13

Event type
1

Source
27

Occupation code
859

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
1

Task assigned
2

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.