OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14485387
B.M.S. INC.
SPRINGWATER, NY·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED AND COWORKER INJUERED IN A FALL
Investigation abstract
At 6:20 p.m. on June 09, 1990, Employee #1 and Employee #2 were dismantling a st iff arm under a crane boom that was used to dig peat from a peat bog. Employee # 1 was approximately 70 ft above ground and Employee #2 was about 35 ft up. Old w ire ropes were cut with a torch. One of them was hung up in the drum at the tip of the boom. When the pins attaching the stiff leg to the boom were cut, the sti ff leg fell and was caught on the wire rope hung on in the boom tip. This pulled the boom to the ground and caused the fall of Employees #1 and #2. Employee #1 was killed and Employee #2 was hospitalized with serious injuries to his ankle.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 33 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- 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 not regularly assigned (2)
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#2 Hospitalized Age 19 Male
- Nature of injury
- Strain/Sprain (20)
- Part of body
- FOOT/ANKLE (11)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- 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 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.