OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14470157
USX EDGAR THOMPSON WORKS
BRADDOCK, PA·
Event description
Employee injured when struck by falling steel plate
Investigation abstract
At approximately 6:15 a.m. on October 15, 1987, Employee #1, a utility man, was g the north side of the scrap box, to notify the operator of the north crane to remove the scrap metal from the tracks. At this point, the operators of the nort h and south cranes both stopped their machines. When the south crane stopped, it dropped a cobble or a 1,000 lb piece of scrap metal that struck Employee #1, wh o was not visible to the crane operator. Employee #1 was hospitalized. At the ti me of the accident, he had had 3 weeks of training and approximately 5 weeks on the job. working at a scrap yard. His job was to move the scrap bucket and buggy from the scrap yard to the furnace for changing once the two overhead magnet cranes fill ed the bucket with scrap steel and cobble. At no time was he or any other employ ee permitted to enter the scrap yard area during the loading of the scrap box un less the operators of both the north and the south cranes were told to stop oper ations. Employee #1 noticed a large piece of scrap metal or cobble lying on the utility buggy; this would have prevented him from moving the buggy and scrap box to the furnace when the box was filled. He entered the scrap yard, walking alon
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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