OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221439094
STEEL PAINTERS LLC
PORT ARTHUR, TX·
Event description
Employee is killed when crushed between steel frame and JLG
Investigation abstract
At 1:15 p.m. on February 18, 2022, Employee #1 was on a Genie S-60X aerial telescopic boom lift and was in the process of painting overhead pipes at a new section of the refinery. A coworker was on the ground and was a spotter. Employee #1 used the foot pedal from the Genie lift to raise himself and went approximately 15 feet and got pinned between the bottom steel beam and bucket frame. Employee #1 was killed due to major head trauma and upper torso trauma.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 61 M
- Event type
- 2
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