OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #671735
LTV STEEL COMPANY INC.
EAST CHICAGO, IN·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by falling metal beam
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 requested a crane to pick up a spreader beam -- an I-beam specially made for moving work and guide rolls in steel mills -- to perform a move. For so me reason, Employee #1 walked to the back side of the spreader beam out of the c rane operator's view. As the crane operator lowered his hook, it struck the beam , causing it to slide off the storage rack, strike Employee #1, and pin him to t he floor. Employee #1 was killed. The storage rack and beam were 8 ft 8 in. high . Employee #1 was 5 ft 9 in. tall. The crane was approximately 40 ft above the f loor level, and the cab was approximately 40 to 50 ft south of the rack.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 43 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 633
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.