OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14371801
BRAKE,STEEL,CRUSHED
Event description
EMPLOYEE CRUSHED AND KILLED BY STEEL COIL
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were repairing the inside loops of a 40,000 pound coi l of steel when a maintenance foreman, checking a report of no brakes on a coil tractor, struck a 37,000 pound coil which crushed Employee #1. Employee #1 died several hours later.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 51 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 15
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 2
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