OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14397566
TEXAS BORING & TUNNELING CORP.
AUSTIN, TX·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by wire cable
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working for a subcontractor who was installing a water transmiss the trailing cable became caught on the lip of the pipe. Employee #1 was standin g near the end of the trailing cable on the east side of the creek. As he walked toward it, possibly to free the shackle, the shackle came loose, causing the ca ble to whip around and strike Employee #1. He was thrown against the side of the metal trench box, and was killed. ion line under a creek using 54 in. encasement pipe. The hole for the final 60 t o 65 ft section of pipe had been bored and the company was cleaning the mud out of it. A winch truck was on the west side of the creek, pulling a pig with attac hed round metal plates through the hole. A 7/8 in. diameter wire cable was conne cted to the front of the pig and a 1/2 in. diameter wire cable that had been len gthened by attaching a shackle to the end was connected to the back. There was n o tension on the trailing cable, which was to be used to pull the pig back after removing the plates. The pig was almost through when the shackle at the end of
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 57 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- 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
- FLYING OBJECT ACTION (5)
- 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.