OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #968461
FRACTURE,PARALYSIS,UNSECURED,BACK,INDUSTRIAL TRUCK,ELEC UTILITY WORK,STRUCK BY,SLING,FALLING OBJECT,UNSTABLE LOAD
Event description
EMPLOYEE STRUCK IN HEAD BY UNSECURED LOAD
Investigation abstract
A lead machinist and two coworkers were dismantling the bottom crusher from a la d sling. The cribbing either had been removed or shifted, allowing the entire lo ad to fall toward the heavy side and onto the machinist. He sustained a broken b ack resulting in permanent paralysis, fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and a fr actured skull. He was hospitalized for his injuries. rge 1723-kilogram boiler housed in a square box with piping. Because of the boil er's round bottom, the employees used two six by eights as cribbing on one side. The machinist was going to use a torch to cut the bolts from the bottom of the box that was holding the pipes, but the cribbing was in the way. He told one of the coworkers to hook a sling around the heavy side and use a forklift on the li ghter side to lift the box so that the machinist could move the cribbing and rea ch the bolts. The coworker did as instructed. At the machinist's signal, the cow orker then stopped the forklift engine, with the load being held by the forks an
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 518
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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