OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14465637
RAINS CONSTRUCTION
GALENA PARK, TX·
Event description
Employee struck and killed by falling timber pylon
Investigation abstract
At approximately 10:00 a.m. on or about June 20,1989, Employee #1 and six cowork ers were pile driving. All the employees were standing 30 to 50 ft away from a 5 5- or 60- ton American 5299 crawler crane that was installing a timber pylon int o a 52 ft lead. The equipment malfunctioned and the pylon fell out of the lead, striking and killing Employee #1. He was facing the pylon as it fell and was tho ught to be at a safe distance from the equipment.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQ. (27)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQUIP./METHOD (8)
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
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.