OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #670489
CHAIN,CHEST,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,CRUSHED,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,TRANSFORMER,UNSTABLE POSITION
Event description
Employee killed when crushed by falling transformer
Investigation abstract
A self-employed general contractor on a demolition project had placed a 9,375 lb to the drums, Employee #1 drove his dump truck onto the job site. His employer h ad been contracted to haul debris from the project. Employee #1 parked his truck about 100 ft from the transformer so that it could be loaded. While waiting for his truck to be loaded, Employee #1 walked over to talk to the general contract or. He stepped between the transformer and pay loader bucket. Apparently the cha in slipped off the teeth of the trackhoe's bucket and within seconds the transfo rmer fell from the wall and crushed his chest, killing him. electrical transformer on a 42 in. high by 7 1/2 in. wide concrete wall and som e scrap lumber. He wanted oil to drain into 55 gallon drums that were sitting in the bucket of the Allis Chalmers payloader, which was parked about 5 ft from th e wall. The transformer was hoisted onto the wall with a Koehring trackhoe and a 3/8 in. chain. The chain was doubled and wrapped around the teeth of the trackh oe's bucket and was attached to two hooks on top of the transformer. When the tr ansformer was placed on the wall, the chain was left in place but may not have b een supporting the load. As the general contractor proceeded to drain the oil in
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 558
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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