OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #851410
THILMANY PULP AND PAPER COMPANY
KAUKAUNA, WI·
Event description
Employee killed when hit by falling logs
Investigation abstract
At approximately 10:30 a.m. on March 19, 1989, Employee #1 and the locomotive cr lder. Employee #1 was killed. ane operator were bringing three flatbed railroad gondola cars to the log deck f or unloading. They had just finished filling the cars to capacity with logs. Whe n they got near their final point of travel on the log deck, Employee #1 had to assist the crane operator by applying sand to the tracks. Once sanding was done, Employee #1 stood adjacent to the locomotive crane. The crane engineer backed u p and then pushed forward. As the locomotive crane gained traction the cars jarr ed. The jarring action caused four logs to roll off a railroad car. One log hit Employee #1 in the head, knocking him down, and a second log hit across his shou
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 40 Male
- Nature of injury
- Concussion (6)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQ. (27)
- Occupation
- Crane and tower operators (849)
- Human factor
- MATER-HANDLG PROCED. INAPPROPR (11)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- 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.