OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14449508
MUELLER PIPELINERS, INC.
ST. PAUL, MN·
Event description
Employee crushed and killed by falling crane
Investigation abstract
At approximately 4:30 p.m. on July 2, 1986, Employee #1 was preparing to unload an Austin Western 7 ton tractor crane, serial #AW3, from a Load King lowboy trac tor. In the process, the crane fell off the trailer and onto Employee #1, crushi ng and killing him. It is not known whether Employee #1 was driving the crane of f the trailer or standing alongside the crane trying to reach its controls. The crane hook was still secured to the trailer; all other chains that should have b een secured for travel had been removed. There were no witnesses to this acciden t.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 859
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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