OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #709626
WESTERN STRUCTURES
SIGURD, UT·
Event description
Employee injured in jump from overturning equipment
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was off-loading concrete barriers, using a system designed and assem e equipment would fall. He sustained multiple fractures when he struck the groun d. bled specifically for handling logs. A coworker, of J & R Concrete, had been emp loyed to supervise the job. A flatbed trailer loaded with concrete barriers had been positioned partially off and parallel with US Highway 89. The hoisting syst em had been positioned 4 to 5 feet away from the flatbed at a 45 degree angle. F ive barriers had been off-loaded. A larger terminal end barrier was being off-lo aded and had swung about 27 degrees when the downhill outrigger slipped, causing the hoisting system to overturn. When Employee #1 realized that the equipment w as going to overturn, he jumped, hoping to clear the area in which he thought th
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 2
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