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Accident Summary Nr: 43925.015 - Employee, caught-between aerial lift and overhead beam, is k

Accident Summary Nr: 43925.015 -- Report ID: 0627700 -- Event Date: 04/23/2013
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
902788.015	04/24/2013		238220	Harold G. Butzer, Inc.

Abstract: At 2:55 p.m. on April 23, 2013, an employee was at the platform control panel of an extensible boom lift, in order to position the lift platform underneath a tower superstructure for grain loading and tighten bolts with an electric hand drill. The employee was found unconscious at the platform control panel, with his back against an overhead beam of the tower superstructure and his chest against the lift platform railing, with his upper body leaning over the platform railing at the control panel. The overhead beam was about 17 feet above the ground. The employee did not have a hard hat on or a fall protection harness and lanyard. The employee sustained multiple blunt force trauma injuries from the extensible boom lift (aerial lift) and overhead beam of the tower.

Keywords: Aerial Lift, Elevated Work Platform, Grain Elevator, Hydraulic Lift, Struck By

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Tower, tank, storage elevator		New project or new addition		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000		88	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	902788.015	57	M	Fatality		Sheet metal worker apprentices	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Steel Erection Of Solid Web-Bolting-Up/Detail Work Fatality Cause:

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