OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #670745
ARCHITECTURAL ANODIZING CORP OF AMERICA
ELKHART, IN·
Event description
Employee dies after struck by falling load
Investigation abstract
At approximately 9:00 a.m. on September 21, 1988, Employee #1 was moving a bundl e of aluminum with a 2 ton overhead bridge crane. The employee had attached the load block from this crane to the bundle with four hooks suspended by chains to the steel banding that was around each end of the bundle. Employee #1 had the lo ad elevated over 6 ft high when the load apparently shifted and one of the bands broke on the end next to the employee. Employee #1 was knocked to the floor. Th e aluminum in this bundle weighed 990 lb and was 179 in. long. The bundle landed on Employee #1's body, leaving just his head exposed. Employee #1 died of a fra ctured skull at the hospital 2 hours later.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 849
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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