OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #571000
L & R CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC.
CENTRALIA, IL·
Event description
Employee killed when crushed by mobile equipment
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were using an aerial lift platform to tighten field b olts in the structural steel framework of a prefabricated industrial building. T he lift platform of the boom-type platform was spotted approximately 18 in. bene ath the beam with the plane of the beam web bisecting platform athwart lift axis . Employee #1 activated travel control of the platform, causing the lift to pin him between the beam flange and the platform control station. Employee #1 was cr ushed against the building structure and killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 50 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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