OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #884361
FRACTURE,CRANE BOOM,TOWER CRANE,CONSTRUCTION,RIB,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,VERTEBRA,CONTUSION,UNSTABLE POSITION
Event description
Employee seriously injured when struck by falling crane boom
Investigation abstract
Workers were assembling a Manitowoc 4100W tower crane on the paved surface of an intersection. The workers were preparing to pin the boom cap to a 42 foot inser t when the cribbing apparently gave way, allowing the boom cap to fall on Employ ee #1. He sustained a complex scalp laceration; a left first rib fracture; left scapular and back contusions and abrasion; left anterior pneumothorax and associ ated pulmonary contusion; L-1 compression fracture; complex pelvic fracture; hem aturia, traumatic, presumably secondary to pelvic fracture and bladder contusion ; comminuted right intratrochanteric femur fracture; and multiple contusions and abrasions.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 55 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 14
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 16
- Task assigned
- 1
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