OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14517494
HEAD,HARD HAT,PPE,TWO-BLOCKING,STRUCK BY,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALLING OBJECT,CRANE
Event description
Employee killed when struck by falling object
Investigation abstract
An American crane, model R213, was being used to set stacks of cinder blocks on was killed. Employee #1 was not wearing a hard hat and loads were being moved ov er work areas. the 4th floor of a condominium. A set of lifting tongues designed for this purpo se was attached to the hook of the crane. When the last stack of blocks had been set down, the boom tip and crane line were not visible to the operator, who was following the signals of a flagman. The load of blocks had been taken from the forks and the signal was given to take it away. As the operator took up the boom , the crane two-blocked and the headache ball and tongues began to swing. The sh ackle on the tongues slipped off the crane hook, which had no latch, and fell on Employee #1, who was laying a cinder block wall. He suffered head injuries and
Victims (3)
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#1 Fatality Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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#982 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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