OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #675033
RIGGING,PINNED,CRUSHED,CHOKER CABLE,CHOKER,CRANE
Event description
EMPLOYEE PINNED BETWEEN STEEL DIES
Investigation abstract
Employees were unloading a 38-ft-long,1800-lb jet pipe consisting of two 4-in. b y bled to death internally. Employees were found to have deficient training in t he recognition and avoidance of hazards associated with rigging. y 4-in. hollow pieces of steel about 35 ft long shaped like a tuning fork from a flat bed truck using a 22 ton P & H rough terrain crane at the rear of the truc k. Employees hooked a spreader cable to the pipe and lifted it. The pipe became unbalanced and swung to the right. It was lowered for re-rigging with the heavy end on the ground and the legs leaning on the side of the flat bed truck. Employ ee #1 jumped on the rear of the flatbed to check the choke connection. The pipe began sliding down the side of the flat bed and pinned Employee #1 between a sta ck of sheet pile corners on the truck just below the rib cage and he subsequentl
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 63 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 2
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