OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14464119
DISMANTLING,UNSECURED,CRANE BOOM,PINNED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALLING OBJECT
Event description
Employee crushed and killed by crane boom
Investigation abstract
At about 9:30 a.m. on May 16, 1985, Employee #1 and a crane operator were at the had knocked out the two bottom pins when the boom dropped, pinning him against the asphalt surface. He was killed. Detroit Diesel Allison Plant #3. They were south of the test stand area of the noise lab, disassembling the boom of a BLH Linn 600T truck crane, serial #4887-9 , that was to be removed from the job site. The point, or stub, section was to b e loaded onto a flatbed semi-trailer, Indiana license #4806, that Employee #1 ha d moved into place. The crane operator backed the crane up to the rear of the tr ailer so that the stub section was touching the bed, but not resting all its wei ght on it. The boom was still supported by the boom cables and pendant line, and the boom harness had not yet been hooked up. Employee #1 was under the boom and
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 849
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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