OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #742759
MOST ENTERPRISES, INC
BALTIMORE, MD·
Event description
EMPLOYEE HOSPITALIZED WHEN STRUCKED BY WIRE ROPES
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was setting a 140-ton white space frame and trust assembly on top of 1 received on the job training from his employer. a National Marine Mammal Facility covering 60,000 square ft. Employee #1 was st anding on the wood platform 45 ft above ground level of Atlantic Giant 700-ton c rane which was sitting on a barge with two part wire ropes 0.625 in. diameter. A pin broke on a 17.5 ton shackle, releasing the main bad block which swung into the area where the Employee #1 was standing on the wooden platform. Employee #1 was struck by the wire ropes attached to the 16-ton main bad block. He sustained numerous injuries: the back area of his body; two fractured vertebra in the nec k; bruises to the left arm, eye, head and face. He was also in shock. Employee #
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 39 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- NECK (20)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- HOISTING APPARATUS (24)
- Occupation
- Structural metal workers (597)
- Human factor
- OTHER (14)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.