OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14377543

ALLIED TUBE & CONDUIT

HARVEY, IL· 1988-05-09T00:00:00

Event: UNSECURED, WORK RULES, STRUCK BY, FALLING OBJECT, UNSTABLE POSITION
NAICS: 000000
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #101133320
Employer profile: ALLIED TUBE & CONDUIT
Summary number: 14377543
Report ID: 521700

Event description

Employee killed when struck by bundle of steel tubing

Investigation abstract

At approximately 1:00 p.m. on May 9, 1988, Employee #1 was transporting EMT tubi ng to a shipping area with a Hyster forklift truck #960. While transporting the last three bundles of EMT tubing, she got off the lift truck to pick up dunnage that had fallen from previous loads. Ornamental fence post tubing that was stack ed 6 ft high behind her and weighed 2,289 lb fell and struck her. Employee #1 wa s killed.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 43 F

Nature of injury
21

Part of body
5

Event type
1

Source
7

Occupation code
999

Human factor
4

Environmental factor
6

Task assigned
1

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