OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14446348
SOUTHERN TESTING AND ENGINEERING CO., INC.
CREEDMOOR, NC·
Event description
CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN STRUCK IN HEAD BY COIL
Investigation abstract
HEATING COILS WERE BEING REMOVED FROM A DRY KILN FOR RETROFITTING. A HYSTER FORK LIFT WHICH WAS IN NEED OF SERVICING WAS BEING USED TO LIFT THE COILS. A SECTION OF COIL, 150 INCHES LONG AND 67 INCHES WIDE, WEIGHING 1500 POUNDS, SUPPORTED BY A CHAIN DRAPED OVER THE LIFT'S FORKS, WAS LIFTED TO A HEIGHT OF 2 FEET. THE FORK LIFT SUDDENLY SLIPPED INTO REVERSE, CAUSING IT TO JERK OUT FROM UNDER THE CHAINS AND ALLOWING THE LOAD TO DROP. THE COIL STRUCK EMPLOYEE #1 ABOVE THE KNEES, KNO CKING HIM TO HIS KNEES. HE THEN WHIPLASHED BACKWARDS, STRIKING HIS HEAD AND SUFF ERING A FATAL CONCUSSION.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 51 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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