OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14500045
WALL,UNSECURED,CONSTRUCTION,HYDRAULIC LINE,CAUGHT BETWEEN,CRUSHED
Event description
Employee killed when crushed by tilting house
Investigation abstract
At approximately 9:00 a.m. on July 20, 1988, Employee #1 was helping to remove a tion of the missing bracket. Employee #1, who was against the rear wall, was cru shed to death between that wall and a hydraulic line rigidly attached to the pla tform. A crane was in position to remove the house, but was not yet attached. Th e contractor who cut the welds had installed the house, and thought it would sti ll be self-supporting, because those welds were originally only a precaution aga inst vibration and/or wind movement. 9 ft by 12 ft house from a platform atop a salvage yard guillotine shear. The h ouse originally rested on the platform and attached angle iron brackets. Employe e #1 and a millwright were inside the house loosening platform floor plates when a third contractor employee arrived. The third employee, who knew the house was welded down to the platform in two places, cut through one of the 3 in. wide at tachment bars. He then went inside the house and cut through the second and last attachment bar. Because one of the support brackets had been unintentionally br oken off without anyone's knowledge, the entire house began tipping in the direc
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 64 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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