OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14519250
ITO CORPORATION
NEW ORLEANS, LA·
Event description
Employee struck and killed by falling load of plywood
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a longshoreman, and coworkers were using a ship's gantry crane and spreader bar to unload preslung bundles of plywood from the #2 hold of a ship. A load consisted of six bundles of plywood (4 ft by 8 ft sheets stacked 3 ft high , with steel bands around both ends). Each load was held by two wire rope slings attached to the ends, which four hold workers would connect to hooks on the spr eader bar. While a load was being lifted, one of the slings slipped off the end and the load fell. One of the plywood bundles struck Employee #1, killing him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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