OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14402119
ACE TRANSPORTATION INC
CONCEPCION, TX·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by falling boom
Investigation abstract
Employee # 1 and coworkers were loading rental components, including tools and a tool box, onto a float during the rigging down operation of an oil well drillin g unit. When Employee #1 released the dogs on the load line of the A-frame-type boom, the boom line winch began to freewheel and the boom fell. It struck Employ ee #1, killing him. The boom was part of an oil field service semi-truck.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 41 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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