OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14394456
LAINE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC.
NAIRN, LA·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by falling crane boom
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and two coworkers were assisting a crane operator in removing steel d, allowing the boom to fall. It struck Employee #1, who was killed. sheeting that had been used as a box while a pipeline in a marsh was being repai red. They were using a 17 ton link belt crane with a 46 ft 8 in. long boom mount ed on marsh tracks. The crew, which was standing on a timber mat, removed approx imately ten sheets on one side of the box with no problem. They then transferred to the opposite side, and connected the crane to the first sheet. When the cran e operator attempted to pull the piece of sheeting out of the marsh, one of the crane tracks came up off the ground. The operator took the weight off the crane and made a second attempt. On the third attempt the 3 ft 8 in. boom cable snappe
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 54 Male
- Nature of injury
- Bruise/Contus/Abras (3)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- HOISTING APPARATUS (24)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.