OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14400493
M E HICKS UTILITY CONTRACTORS INC
PLANO, TX·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by crane boom
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a 19-year-old laborer, was standing on the bank of an excavation in to which a crane was lowering a 3-ton section of 54 inch, 45 degree angle sewer pipe. The crane tipped under the load and fell forward. Its point section struck Employee #1, pinning him beneath the boom. He was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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