Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202342101 - Employee Fractures Foot When Struck by Collapsing Crane

Accident Summary Nr: 202342101 -- Report ID: 0215000 -- Event Date: 03/15/2008
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
311831879	03/15/2008	1796	238290	Rapetti Rigging Services Inc.

Abstract: At approximately 2:30 p.m. on March 15, 2008, an employee was working from the eighteenth floor level to supervise the completion of adding sections to the crane, jumping the crane. A steel beam brace, sticking out from the eighteenth floor level, was being pinned to a positioning collar when the collar broke free and fell, striking and breaking free the positioning collar on the ninth floor. Both collars continued to fall, striking and bending down the last positioning collar on the third floor. The crane tower, mast, then fell and collapsed. This collapse caused the steel beam to jerk up and down, striking the employee's foot, before the beam was pulled from the building by the collapsing crane. The employee was transported to the hospital, where he was hospitalized and treated for fractured foot.

Keywords: FRACTURE, COLLAPSE, TOWER CRANE, STRUCK BY, FOOT

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Multi-family dwelling		New project or new addition		$20,000,000 and over	43	430

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	311831879			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Occupation not reported	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Installing equipment (HVAC and other) Fatality Cause: Struck by falling object/projectile

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