OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691352
VULCRAFT DIVISION OF NUCOR CORP.
BRIGHAM CITY, UT·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by steel bars
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were attempting to hook up and move three bundles of ighing 4,000 lb, fell on her. Employee #1 was crushed and killed. 12 ft steel bars with an overhead crane. The bundles were next to the floor and Employee #1 was on her knees at the end of the bundles hooking a web sling under the stock. Meanwhile, her coworker was walking on top of the bundles removing d unnage (sections of 4 by 4 in. wood). One piece of the dunnage appeared to be we dged between a 19 in. concrete platform and a stack of steel bar bundles that wa s next to the three bundles of steel to be moved. When the coworker kicked the p iece of dunnage loose so that he could remove it, the bundles shifted. He called out a warning to Employee #1 and jumped clear of the area. Two bundles, each we
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 25 F
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 873
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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