OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #971176
AMCOR INC
OGDEN, UT·
Event description
Employee's neck broken when struck by falling block
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working inside a large concrete pipe mold setting up the core. T he core was put in place by an overhead bridge crane. The employee had unhooked the core from the slings and the crane operator, operating from a cab, had moved the cab over the mold to make sure it was straight. The operator was moving the cab back toward the wall and raising the block out of the mold at the same time . He accidentally raised the block all the way up. The upper limit switch failed to work; it two-blocked and broke the wire rope, dropping a more than 300 lb bl ock back down inside the mold. It struck Employee #1, breaking his neck. He was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 30 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- NECK (20)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- HOISTING APPARATUS (24)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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.