Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 134177.015 - One employee is killed and one is injured when crane basket

Accident Summary Nr: 134177.015 -- Report ID: 0626700 -- Event Date: 03/21/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1520787.015	03/22/2021		237130	Mesa Line Services, Llc

Abstract: At 12:25 a.m. on March 21, 2021, Employees #1 and #2 and a coworker, employed by a power and communication line construction company, were engaged in the construction of a power line tower. Employees #1 and #2 were working from a personnel basket hoisted by their coworker, a crane operator. They were installing the arms of a monopole. As they adjusted the bracket, the personnel basket, which was not properly secured to the crane boom, fell off the boom. Employees #1 and #2 fell with the personnel basket, a fall height of 150 feet. Employee #1 sustained blunt force trauma to the head and neck and was killed. Employee #2 was transported by emergency services to the hospital, where he was admitted for treatment of multiple injuries including multiple fractures and fluid in the lungs. The subsequent investigation of the equipment failure determined that the large retaining pin had not been inserted to keep the basket and jib attachment secured to to the jib adaptor and crane boom. In addition, no one had conducted visual inspections of the equipment.

Keywords: Basket, Blunt force trauma, Construction, Crane, Crane Boom, Equipment Failure, Fall Protection, Fracture, Head, Installing, Jib Crane, Locking Pins, Lung, Metal Pole, Neck, Overhead Power Line, Personnel Cage, Pin, Tower, Unsecured, Utility Pole

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Powerline, transmission line		New project or new addition				150	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1520787.015	23	M	Hospitalized injury		Electrical Power-Line	Distance of Fall: 150 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 150 feet Cause: Erecting structural steel Fatality Cause:
2	1520787.015	29	M	Fatality		Electrical Power-Line	Distance of Fall: 150 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 150 feet Cause: Erecting structural steel Fatality Cause:

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