OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #888818
HEAD,IMPALED,UNSECURED,CONDUIT,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY,SLING,FALLING OBJECT,UNSTABLE LOAD
Event description
Employee killed when struck by falling conduit
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 had loaded 200 pieces of 10 ft long conduit onto a truck to be moved to a site. He had rigged the conduit with two nylon slings and a nylon rope tag line that would be hoisted by a crane to the second floor. The crane hoisted th e load and swung it left toward the building. As the load was being lifted, the crane operator noticed the right sling sliding toward the center of the load. Th e load then turned vertically and pieces of conduit started to fall. Employee #1 was walking toward a building when the falling conduit impaled his head. He was pronounced dead the following day. The employee had received extensive safety t raining through NNR/Foley Inc. and various union programs.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 575
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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