Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201925104 - Employee Is Crushed and Killed by Counterweight

Accident Summary Nr: 201925104 -- Report ID: 0626700 -- Event Date: 04/19/2010
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
312922057	04/19/2010	1629	237120	Becon Construction Company

Abstract: On April 19, 2010, at the Motiva site in Port Arthur, Texas a 90 ton Link-Belt extendable boom crane was being used as an assist crane to lift a 44,000 lbs counterweight tray to a DeMag 660 ton crane. An employee was trying to insert lug pins that connected the counterweight tray to the understructure of the DeMag. The preliminary findings reveal that one of the riggers was possibly on a ladder attempting to insert the first pin on the counterweight tray that was approximately 1 to 2 inches below the DeMag's structure when the assist crane's pinned section of the boom failed, dropping the 44,000 lb tray on the employee. The employee was killed.

Keywords: HEAD, HOISTING MECHANISM, COUNTERBALANCE, PINNED, CRUSHED, STRUCK BY, CONCUSSION, FALLING OBJECT, CRANE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Refinery		New project or new addition		$20,000,000 and over			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	312922057			Fatality	Concussion	Supervisors; handlers,equip-cleaners,laborers nec	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Emplacing reinforcing steel Fatality Cause: Struck by falling object/projectile

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