OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #970913
CLEARFIELD MANUFACTURING
CLEARFIELD, UT·
Event description
Employee's legs crushed by 26,000 lb sheet steel load
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was attempting to load 14 pieces of 6 ft by 30 ft by 1/4 in. sheet s teel onto an awaiting truck. Inadequate/improper lifting equipment, methods, and procedures resulted in the 26,000 lb load being dropped and landing partially o n both legs of Employee #1, who was operating the pendant controls of the bridge crane. Employee #1 required hospitalization.
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 21 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- LEGS (16)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- HOISTING APPARATUS (24)
- Occupation
- Misc. metal,plastic,stone&glass-working mach. op's (715)
- Human factor
- EQUIP. INAPPROPR FOR OPERATION (6)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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#981
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.