OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #656785
PAPER ROLL,CRUSHED,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,INATTENTION
Event description
EMPLOYEE STRUCK AND CRUSHED BY FALLING PAPER ROLLS
Investigation abstract
ON APRIL 9, 1987, EMPLOYEE #1, A SUPERVISOR/CLAMP TRUCK OPERATOR, WAS DRAGGING S R MADE CONTACT WITH THE TOP OF THE MAST IT DISLODGED THE TOP 3 ROLLS OF PAPER. T HESE 3 ROLLS STRUCK THE OPERATOR AS HE ATTEMPTED TO JUMP CLEAR OF THE CLAMP TRUC K. HE RECEIVED FATAL INJURIES. THE CLAMP TRUCK WAS MANUFACTURED BY YALE, MODEL N UMBER 83C-080-SBT-083. THE EMPLOYEE HAD 12 YEARS EXPERIENCE AS A FOREMAN/CLAMP T RUCK OPERATOR. TACKS OF ROLLED PAPER FROM EXPANSION CRACKS IN THE CONCRETE FLOOR SO THE CRACKS COULD BE GROUTED. AS HE WAS MOVING THE SECOND STACK OF PAPER (172 INCHES HIGH AN D WEIGHING 12,129 POUNDS) HE UNKNOWINGLY DRAGGED ROLL NUMBER 2 OFF THE BOTTOM ST ACK. HE THEN HAD 7 ROLLS OF PAPER, WEIGHING 10,621 POUNDS, SUSPENDED 21 1/2 INCH ES ABOVE THE FLOOR IN A CLAMP TRUCK LIMITED TO 5,000 POUNDS. THE STACK OF PAPER MOVED AFT, TOWARD THE MAST, CAUSING THE CLAMP TRUCK TO GAIN MOMENTUM. THE SUSPEN DED LOAD CAUSHED THE REAR WHEELS OF THE CLAMP TRUCK TO BE LIFTED OFF OF THE FLOO R, LEADING TO THE OPERATOR'S LOSS OF DIRECTIONAL CONTROL, WHEN THE STACK OF PAPE
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 43 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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