OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221742257

NERO ENTERPRISE LLC

WILCOX, PA— 2025-02-10T00:00:00

Event: Catch Point, Caught Between, Communication, Contusion, Crane, Crane Operator, Crane Outrigger, Crushed, Driver, Driving, Equipment Operator, Foot Control, Foot pedal, Fracture, Head, Hill, Lighting, Machine operator, Material Handling, Miscommunication, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Mobile Crane, Multi-employer Worksite, Multiemployer, Obstructed View, Pinch Point, Pinched, Stuck, Truck, Truck Driver, Unresponsive, Unsafe Position, Wrong Equipment
NAICS: 213112
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #348039728
Employer profile: NERO ENTERPRISE LLC
Summary number: 221742257
Report ID: 0336000

Event description

Employee sustains fatal injuries when caught between outrigg

Investigation abstract

At 6:30 p.m. on February 10, 2025, Employee #1 was working for an oil and gas rotated. Employee #1 was trying to adjust the base plate as the coworker operated the controls approximately 10 feet from the outrigger. Employee #1 was on one knee when the coworker retract the outrigger and activated the two-step control retracting for about 2 seconds. The coworker observed something was wrong with Employee #1. Employee #1 fell to the ground. The coworker rushed to his aid but found him unresponsive. Employee #1 sustained fatal injuries. support service and was driving a Freightliner tractor trailer hauling a Mobile Crane up a hill to a well site. A coworker (owner) and Employee #1 were transporting the crane and 3 wellhead cages to the site. The coworker was operating the crane while the employee drove the truck. Employee #1 became stuck on the incline. They used the crane to pull the truck up the incline using a 10-foot polyester lifting strap wrapped around the rear outrigger. At the top of the hill, they unhooked one of the lifting straps from both vehicles. They were retracting the outrigger when the base plate on the outrigger needed to be

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 35 M

Event type
2

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.