OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #742098
OBSTRUCTED VIEW,WORK RULES,COLLISION,NECK,STRUCK BY,COMMUNICATION,SPRAIN,CRANE
Event description
Employee sprains neck when crane is bumped by another crane
Investigation abstract
On September 9, 1988, Employee #1, the operator of crane #1, was moving steel ne According to the operator, the stocker talked to Employee #1 and presumably aske d her to help the operator of crane #3 move crane #2. Thinking that Employee #1 was ready to sandwich crane #2, crane #3 bumped crane #2, which bumped into cran e #1. Employee #1 was not expecting to be bumped and her neck muscles were strai ned. There was no means of communication between crane #3 and crane #1 and their view of each other was blocked by crane #2. In addition, there was no superviso r present to direct the process. xt to crane #2. The operator of crane #3 was working in the area, on the other s ide of crane #2. Cranes #1, #2, and #3 were 40 ton capacity, cab-operated overhe ad bridge cranes being used in a 56 in. cold sheet mill. Crane #2, the middle cr ane, had been riding off its rails so it had been taken out of commission and se t so that it could be pushed by the other cranes. Management had decided that wh enever crane #2 had to be moved, it was to be sandwiched between two other crane s and moved under the direction of a supervisor. Crane #3's operator found that crane #2 was in his way and yelled to his stocker that he had to move crane #2.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 49 F
- Nature of injury
- 20
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 849
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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