OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #894048
HEAD,HOISTING MECHANISM,COLLAPSE,CRANE BOOM,TRUCK CRANE,BROKEN CABLE,CONSTRUCTION,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT
Event description
Employee killed when struck by truck crane boom
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were instructed by their foreman to set up on a groun s when the right pennant line broke at the yoke/bridle. The boom collapsed, stri king Employee #1 on the head and killing him. d slab in the southeastern corner of a building. They were to land and place rei nforcing steel using a crane. A P & H 77STC truck crane was positioned at street level, 30 ft higher in elevation than the ground slab and approximately 162 ft from the landing area. The landing area was approximately 40 ft beyond the radiu s limit for the crane, as specified by the manufacturer. The 24 piece bundle of 28 1/2 ft long #9 rebar that was to be picked up and loaded onto the crane's hoi stline was at street elevation, 50 ft in front of the crane. The operator made t he pick up and was swinging around and lowering it to his left using hand signal
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 17
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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