OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #571273
BOOM,TRUCK CRANE,CRUSHED,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,OVERTURN
Event description
Employee killed when crushed under truck crane boom
Investigation abstract
At approximately 9:15 p.m. on August 11, 1988, Employee #1 positioned a truck-mo control the load. He did jump off the overturning truck crane, but stumbled to the ground. While trying to clear the overturning truck crane, he was crushed to death under the falling boom. unted crane at 90 degrees to and backed up to within 6 ft of a flatbed trailer c ontaining a large steel ladle. He had positioned the crane approximately the sam e as the shift group leader had done the previous evening. Employee #1 commenced to pick up the steel staging plate (work platform) mounted on the ladle, which weighed 5,480 lb. As the lift was being made and the boom rotated clockwise to c lear the ladle and flatbed trailer, the truck-mounted crane started to overturn. The shift group leader shouted to Employee #1 to jump from the truck control pl atform just back of the truck cab, but Employee #1 hesitated while attempting to
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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