OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14341846
FALCON FIRE PROTECTION INC.
CORAL GABLES, FL·
Event description
Construction worker killed when crushed by counterweight
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was placing a 16 ft long by 1 1/2 in. diameter sprinkler pipe into a ventilator shaft on the machinery room roof. He was bending over the shaft wall helping to align the pipe when the crane operator rotated the crane. Employee # 1 was crushed to death against the top of the ventilator wall by the crane's cou nterweight bottom. The crane operator knew that there was a 3/4 in. (unloaded) c learance between the counterweight and the ventilator wall top, but he was unawa re of Employee #1's position.
Victims (2)
-
#1 Fatality Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Hazardous substance
- 8870
- Task assigned
- 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
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.