OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #607358
COOK & INGLE CO., INC.
DALTON, GA·
Event description
EMPLOYEE INJURED WHEN HEAVY CONCRETE PANELS FELL ON HIM
Investigation abstract
ON APRIL 19, 1988, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS ASSISTING IN THE LOADING OF CONCRETE PANELS O EMPLOYEE #1 WAS STILL ABOARD THE TRAILER WHEN THIS HAPPENED. ONE OR MORE OF THE CONCRETE PANELS STRUCK HIM, CAUSING THE COMPLETE AMPUTATION OF ONE LEG AND THE CRUSHING OF THE OTHER. NTO A FLATBED FONTAINE TRAILER. HIS JOB WAS TO UNHOOK THE PANELS AS THEY WERE PL ACED ON THE TRAILER. THE LOADING WAS NEARLY COMPLETED WHEN A KENWORTH TRACTOR AR RIVED AND ATTEMPTED TO ATTACH TO THE TRAILER. THE TRAILER WAS TOO LOW FOR THE TR ACTOR TO GET UNDER IT. TO ADJUST THE HEIGHT OF THE TRAILER, A P & H MOBILE CRANE WAS USED (BY ATTACHING THE WIRE ROPE SLINGS TO THE STAKE POCKETS AT THE FRONT O F THE TRAILER). DURING THE LIFT ONE OF THE STAKE POCKETS BROKE OFF AND THE TRAIL ER FELL A FEW INCHES. WHEN THE TRAILER FELL, THE LOAD (APPROXIMATELY 40,000 POUN DS) OF PRECAST CONCRETE SHIFTED, CAUSING THE TRAILER TO TURN OVER ONTO ITS SIDE.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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