OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #733956
UNSECURED,CHEST,CRUSHED,TRAILER,FALLING OBJECT,SPREADER BAR,UNSTABLE LOAD
Event description
Employee killed when crushed by oil field equipment
Investigation abstract
Two employees were attempting to unload a stack of three sub-structure spreaders o employees working at the site. Employee #1 died of massive chest trauma approx imately one hour later while en route to the hospital. (each weighing approximately 1,000 to 1,500 lb) from the bed of a 4 ft high tra iler. Employee #1 had parked the tractor and trailer on level ground, and then r emoved the chains that held the load in place during transport. Employee #1 then climbed up the load and stood inside the open web of the spreaders. He directed a gin pole truck to back up to the load. Before the truck reached the load, the top two spreaders slid off the trailer on the side away from the gin pole truck , carrying Employee #1 with them. Employee #1 landed on the ground and the top s preader landed on top of him, crushing his chest. The spreader was removed by tw
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 54 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 12
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 804
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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