OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14518047
APTCO CONSTRUCTORS
JACKSONVILLE, FL·
Event description
Employee killed in 70 ft fall with personnel basket
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working from a personnel basket suspended from a mobile crane. H e was welding metal plates over the joints of a gantry crane when the crane was pushed into motion by wind shear. As the gantry crane began to roll, the mobile crane overturned, breaking the hoisting cable for the personnel basket. Employee #1 fell approximately 70 feet and was killed. The gantry crane brakes were not set, nor was the crane secured to prevent movement.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 45 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 32
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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