Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201508140 - Employee Is Crushed and Killed by Shipping Container

Accident Summary Nr: 201508140 -- Report ID: 0950614 -- Event Date: 09/24/2007
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
310061445	09/25/2007	4491	488320	Stevedoring Services Of America

Abstract: Employee #1 was a lasher whose duties include securing the shipping containers when loaded on the ship or releasing them from being secured to be unloaded off the ship. On the day of the accident, the shore-based container crane was lifting containers on the ship which did not lock properly to each other. The crane operator lifted one container just high enough to set it down again so that it will lock to the other container below it. Instead, it swung and hit Employee #1 who was nearby and crushed him against the ship's steel-frame catwalk. Employee #1 suffered massive internal injuries and died.

Keywords: LONGSHORING, EQUIPMENT FAILURE, CRUSHED, CONTAINERIZED CARGO, CRANE

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	310061445			Fatality	Other	Stevedores

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