OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14503858
UTILITY TOWER CO.
COLWICH, KS·
Event description
Employee killed in 200 ft fall from microwave tower
Investigation abstract
Employees were removing 1,000 ft of 5 in. coaxial cable from a 1,154 ft tall rad came out of the hoisting grip and struck Employee #1. His safety belt link faile d and he fell to the ground. Employee #1 was killed. io tower. They were using a system of rigged lines and hoisting grips, which wer e spaced every 200 ft, to remove 200 ft of cable at a time. A safety backup line that used a barrel hitch had also been attached just below the hoisting grip to each of the three 200 ft sections that the workers had removed from the top. Em ployee #1 was at the 200 ft level on the tower. In preparation for sawing the ca ble, he had removed the cable brackets that held it to the tower. The weight of the cable, which had not yet been transferred over to the rigged lines by his co worker at the 400 ft level, was being held only by the hoisting grip. The cable
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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