OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #796573
CRANE HOOK,LADLE,SLIP,MOLTEN METAL,HAND,BURN,NECK,SPILL,FACE,SPRAIN
Event description
One employee killed, four injured in molten iron spill
Investigation abstract
At approximately 7:45 p.m. on June 4, 1988, Employee #4 was moving a ladle of mo t- and 2nd-degree burns of the face and hands. Employee #4 complained of neck st rain incurred by a wrenching motion. Employee #5 incurred 2nd- and 3rd-degree bu rns over approximately 82 percent of the body, and died on June 28, 1988. Point loading of the crane's south hook is the most supported cause of this accident. lten iron that weighed approximately 166 tons with an Alliance 275 ton capacity hot metal crane. Employee #4 was lowering and tilting the ladle to position it i n front of the slag skimmer when the crane's south hook slipped out from under t he ladle's south trunnion. The entire contents of the ladle emptied onto the dir t/slag floor. Employees #1, #2, and #3 were working in the reladle pulpit, locat ed approximately 20 feet away and 20 feet above the hot metal spill. Employee #5 was sitting in a track crawler front end loader, which was parked approximately 105 feet northeast of the hot metal spill. Employees #1, #2, and #3 incurred 1s
Victims (5)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 33 F
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 10
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 873
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 10
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 798
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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#3 Hospitalized Age 47 F
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 10
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 849
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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#4 Hospitalized Age 62 M
- Nature of injury
- 20
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 849
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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#5 Fatality Age 51 M
- Nature of injury
- 5
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 853
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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