OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14559660
SEVERED,EXCAVATION,FRACTURE,TRUCK CRANE,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,CRUSHED,STRUCK BY,ARTERY,UNSTABLE POSITION
Event description
Employee killed when crushed by concrete vault
Investigation abstract
At 11:35 a.m. on December 27, 1989, Employee #1 was in an excavation that measur . Employee #1 died. ed approximately 16 ft long, 18 to 22 ft wide, and 11 ft 4 in. deep. Coworkers w ere using an FMC Link Belt HTC-35 35-ton hydraulic truck crane to lower a concre te vault that measured 9 ft 4 in. by 9 ft 4 in. by 8 ft. While the vault was boo med out over the excavation, the crane tipped onto its rear outriggers, causing the vault to be lowered quickly into the excavation. The vault contacted one wal l and careened toward the opposite wall, crushing Employee #1 between the concre te vault and the wall. He suffered broken ribs and a broken pelvis on his right side, and a neck laceration and a severed carotid artery, also on his right side
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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