OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14391148
EJECTED,SHEAR,WORK RULES,CRAWLER CRANE,STRUCK AGAINST,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,ELEVATED WORK PLAT
Event description
One employee killed, one injured in fall from platform
Investigation abstract
On May 11, 1987, Employees #1 and #2 and a coworker were preparing a bridge plum as thrown violently about and Employee #1 was catapulted from the box into a net slung below the adjacent span. He struck stringers or bridge supports before re aching the net, and was killed. Employee #2 was injured. b post that was to be temporarily hinged to one side so that a bottom chord coul d be inserted to connect two spans of a new bridge across the Mississippi River between Vidalia, LA, and Natchez, MS. The coworker was on a float removing previ ously installed bolts and pins from the plumb post. Employee #2 was on the top c hord catching the bolts and pins. Employee #1 was in a skip box suspended by a b arge-mounted crawler crane, fastening a choker to the plumb post so that it coul d be swung to the side by the crane. Either the plumb post or the choker fouled on the adjacent diagonal, causing the front hinging to shear off. The skip box w
Victims (2)
-
#1 Fatality Age 41 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 9
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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.