Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200071793 - Employee Is Killed When Crushed by Falling Crane and Load

Accident Summary Nr: 200071793 -- Report ID: 0453720 -- Event Date: 09/16/2002
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
305093312	09/16/2002	1791	0	Contract Erectors, Inc.

Abstract: At 1:05 p.m. on September 16, 2002, Employee #1 and six coworkers were using a 90-ton Clark-Lima lattice boom truck crane to unload joist girders, columns, bridging, and other structural steel from flatbed trucks into a building. Employee #1 and a coworker were setting the cribbing, guiding the load onto the cribbing, and then releasing the rigging from the load. The second load of girder joists was being placed into the building. When the crane experienced a mechanical failure, the boom and load fell. Employee #1 was crushed and killed.

Keywords: GIRDER, CRANE BOOM, SUSPENDED LOAD, CONSTRUCTION, EQUIPMENT FAILURE, CRUSHED, TRUCK, OFF LOADING, FALLING OBJECT, CRANE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000	1	29	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	305093312			Fatality	Other	Occupation not reported	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Steel Erection Of Solid Web-Landing Materials (Hoi Fatality Cause: Struck by falling object/projectile

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