OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14542229
UNSECURED,TOWER CRANE,SUSPENDED LOAD,CONSTRUCTION,CRUSHED,OFF LOADING,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT
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
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#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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