Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 128467.015 - Employee is struck by falling crane jib and is killed

Accident Summary Nr: 128467.015 -- Report ID: 0317300 -- Event Date: 08/06/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1487387.015	08/07/2020		238120	Fulgent Contracting Corporation

Abstract: At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 2020, Employee #1 and coworkers, a crew employed by a structural steel construction company, were working at a multi-employer construction project, a four-story commercial building. Employee #1 was directing the crew while they set up a jib crane. A storm with lightning was approaching, so three blasts on an alert horn alerted the employees to shut everything down, get off the building, and take cover. Employee #1 approached the crane operator to alert him. An oiler was working at the top of the crane boom to set up the jib. Someone yelled up to the oiler to tell him not to pull the pin. Apparently the oiler misheard and thought he was being instructed to pull the pin, which he proceeded to do. The jib, weighing 6,600 pounds, fell and struck Employee #1. Employee #1 was killed.

Keywords: Blunt force trauma, Construction, Crane, Crane Operator, Falling Object, Jib Crane, Lightning, Storm, Struck By

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition			4	50	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1487387.015	42	M	Fatality		Construction trades, n.e.c.	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Steel Erection Of Solid Web-Bolting-Up/Detail Work Fatality Cause:

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