OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14495493
WHITTWEAR CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC.
PAWNEE, OK·
Event description
Employee injured when struck by crane boom, later dies
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, age 20, was removing a portion of the boom of a Lorain 325 25-ton w heel-mounted mobile boom crane. His lead man, the crane operator, was occupied e lsewhere. Contrary to his instructions, Employee #1 removed the tip of the crane by taking out the bottom pins first. When the bottom two pins of the four pin a ttachment were removed, the boom collapsed onto the lower portion of his body. E mployee #1 died nearly a week later of heart failure. He was working alone and o f his own will.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 2
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