OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #742759
EYE,FRACTURE,WIRE ROPE,NECK,STRUCK BY,ARM,FACE,VERTEBRA,CRANE
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 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 597
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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