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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14542229

UNSECURED,TOWER CRANE,SUSPENDED LOAD,CONSTRUCTION,CRUSHED,OFF LOADING,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT

Event
UNSECURED,TOWER CRANE,SUSPENDED LOAD,CONSTRUCTION,CRUSHED,OFF LOADING,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14542229
Report ID
418100

Event description

Employee in trailer crushed and killed by falling load

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was unloading crates of glass from an open top trailer. The crates w ere being hoisted with a tower crane to the 8th floor of a building. When the lo ad had been raised 60 to 80 ft, the crate slipped off the slings and fell into t he trailer, crushing and killing Employee #1.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 32 M

    Nature of injury
    21
    Part of body
    19
    Event type
    1
    Source
    27
    Occupation code
    589
    Human factor
    1
    Environmental factor
    6
    Task assigned
    2

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