OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14461917
S AND E CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
MILLINGTON, TN·
Event description
Employee crushed and killed by crane counterweight
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing almost against the outrigger upright post at the left r ear of a crane. As the crane swung around, it caught him and pulled him onto the outrigger post. The distance between the top of the outrigger post and the coun terweight was 3 1/4 inches. The employee was pinned between the crane counterwei ght and the left-rear outrigger. There were no barrier or awareness guards aroun d the crane to prevent employees from being injured or killed as it traversed. E mployee's chest and neck were completely crushed and he was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 42 Male
- Nature of injury
- Puncture (18)
- Part of body
- CHEST (5)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- HOISTING APPARATUS (24)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- 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.