OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14542047
WIRE ROPE,CRANE BOOM,CONSTRUCTION,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,LACERATION,STRUCK BY,FLYING OBJECT,BOOM SUPPORT CABLE,CRANE
Event description
Employee injured when struck by boom standing rope
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was on a bridge as a prestressed concrete beam was being installed b y two cranes. The boom of one of the cranes collapsed, and the standing rope for the boom struck Employee #1. He sustained multiple lacerations and was hospital ized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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