OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14352371
H H JORDAN CONSTRUCTION CO
GULFSHORE, AL—
Event description
STRUCK BY PIPE FALLING FROM FLATBED TRUCK
Investigation abstract
ON MAY 23RD EMPLOYEE #1 WAS KILLED WHILE OFF-LOADING PIPE FROM A FLATBED TRUCK. PIPE ON THE TRUCK BED. EMPLOYEE#1 WAS STANDING ON THE BED WHEN THIS HAPPENED. H E EITHER LOST HIS BALANCE TRYING TO AVOID THE MOVING PIPES OR WAS SWEPT OFF BY T HE SLIDING PIPE. HE FELL TO THE GROUND WHERE HE WAS STRUCK IN THE CHEST AREA BY THE FALLING HEAVY "JET" PIPE. EMPLOYEE #1 DIED OF INTERNAL INJURIES. THE SITE WAS ROMAR BEACH, ALABAMA. EIGHT SECTIONS OF SIX INCH DIAMETER PIPE WERE TO BE UNLOADED FROM THE TRUCK. THE PIPES WERE ABOUT FORTY FEET IN LENGTH. SEVEN WERE THIN METAL-WALL SUCTION PIPES, WEIGHING ABOUT 100 POUNDS APIECE. THE EIGTH PIPE WAS A THICK METAL-WALLED "JET" PIPE, WEIGHING OVER 1,000 POUNDS. A LOOSE B UNDLE OF SUCTION PIPE WAS SECURED BY A DOUBLE CHOKER HITCHED TO AN OVERHEAD CRAN E ASSEMBLY. THE LOAD WAS IMPROPERLY ATTACHED, WITH ONE CHOKER SURROUNDING FIVE P IPE SECTIONS AND THE OPPOSITE CHOKER SURROUNDING ONLY FOUR SECTIONS. WHEN TENSIO N WAS APPLIED TO THE HOIST LINE THE IMBALANCED LOAD SHIFTED, DISTURBING ADJACENT
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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