OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14503015
CARNEY BRIDGE & DEMOLITION, INC.
LEAVENWORTH, KS·
Event description
Employee drowns as rig slides into Missouri River
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was setting the outriggers on a knuckle boom loader mounted on a For d 880 flatbed truck. The rig was on a boat loading ramp adjacent to the Missouri River and was about to be used to load a boom section onto a work barge. When t he outriggers raised the rear tires of the rig off the ground, the rig slid into the river. Employee #1 jumped from the rig into the river and drowned.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 41
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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