OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14384937
ERECTION PROCESS,BUILDING,IRON WORKER,LADDER,CONSTRUCTION,CAUGHT BETWEEN,STEEL ERECTION,METAL DECKING,CRANE
Event description
CAUGHT BETWEEN COLUMN AND OVERHEAD CRANE FRAME
Investigation abstract
AN IRON WORKER WAS STRUCK BY, AND CAUGHT BETWEEN, THE FRAME OF AN OVERHEAD CRANE AND A COLUMN AS HE WAS CLIMBING (OR DESCENDING) A FIXED LADDER TO THE ROOF. HE WAS STRUCK BY A WHITING 20 TON OVERHEAD CRANE (SER. NO. 11693). THE IMPACT OF TH E BLOW PINNED HIS BODY BETWEEN THE BUILDING COLUMN (#12) AND THE FRAME OF THE CR ANE. EMPLOYEE #1 RECEIVED INJURIES TO THE CHEST AND LEFT THIGH. IF EMPLOYEE #1 H AD FOLLOWED THE COMPANY'S PROCEDURE OF NOTIFYING THE CRANE OPERATOR AND/OR THE H OOK UP MAN THAT HE WANTED TO USE THE LADDER, THE ACCIDENT COULD POSSIBLY HAVE BE EN AVOIDED. THE CRANE WAS OPERATED BY AN EMPLOYEE OF THE BUILDING OWNER.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 18
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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