Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 14550057 - Employee killed when struck by falling sheet piling

Accident Summary Nr: 14550057 -- Report ID: 0454712 -- Event Date: 11/13/1984
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
15143407	11/15/1984	1622	0	Mckinnon Bridge Company

Abstract: Employee #1 was unloading sheet piling from a tractor trailer for a bridge under construction. The load's restraining chains had been unhooked on the passenger side of the truck. Employee #1 was apparently pulling the chain across the material to the driver's side of the truck when the chain became caught. He pulled on it and the material fell off the truck and onto him. Employee #1 suffered multiple internal crushing injuries, and was killed.

Keywords: WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, CRUSHED, OFF LOADING, STRUCK BY, TRACTOR TRAILER, FALLING OBJECT, UNSTABLE LOAD

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	15143407			Fatality	Other	Structural metal workers

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