OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #689232
NORTHLAND CONSTRUCTORS, INC.
DULUTH, MN·
Event description
EMPLOYEE INJURED WHEN STRUCK BY FALLING CRUSHER HOPPER
Investigation abstract
AT APPROXIMATELY 7:28 AM ON MAY 12, 1987, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS ASSISTING IN THE JOB O THE GROUND AND FELL ON HIM. HE SUSTAINED INTERNAL INJURIES AND A BROKEN PELVIS AND HAD TO BE TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL. F LOADING HALF A PRIMARY ROCK CRUSHER HOPPER ONTO A FLAT-BED TRAILER. THE HOPPER WAS REMOVED FROM THE CRUSHER AND LOADED ONTO THE TRAILER ALONGSIDE THE CRUSHER. THE LOAD WAS LOWERED UNTIL THE LIFTING CHAINS WENT SLACK. EMPLOYEE #1 REMOVED T HE CHAIN MIDWAY OF THE LOAD WHILE THE TRUCK DRIVER WHO WAS HELPING TO LOAD THE U NIT REMOVED THE FORWARD HOOK. AFTER THE HOOKS WERE REMOVED EMPLOYEE #1 STARTED W ALKING FORWARD ALONG THE RIGHT EDGE OF THE TRAILER. SUDDENLY THE UNIT, WHICH, WH ILE ON THE GROUND HAD BEEN BALANCED AT A POINT OUT OF SIGHT OF THE WORKERS, TIPP ED OVER TO THE RIGHT AND FELL OFF THE TRAILER. THE HOPPER KNOCKED EMPLOYEE #1 TO
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 14
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 558
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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