Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 70382.015 - Lift operator is killed when caught between lift's basket an

Accident Summary Nr: 70382.015 -- Report ID: 0521700 -- Event Date: 01/30/2015
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1022967.015	01/30/2015		238120	Area Erectors, Inc.

Abstract: At 12:00 p.m. on January 30, 2015, Employee #1 and two crews of coworkers, employed by a steel erection company, were working at a commercial warehouse construction site. They were installing metal cross braces along open webbed steel joists. Employee #1 was operating an Illini Hi-Reach JLG Lift, a telescopic boom aerial lift and was connecting the cross braces to an affixed joist. He was trailing and setting the cross braces approximately 50 to 100 feet behind his coworkers, the erecting crew. During this operation Employee #1 appears to have leaned over the control panel of the lift, causing it to engage and pinning him between the frame of the lift basket and the base of the open webbed joists. Employee #1 was killed. Cause of death was determined to be asphyxia.

Keywords: Aerial Lift, Aerial Lift Controls, Asphyxiated, Caught Between, Chest, Construction, Installing, Pinned, Steel Connecting, Steel Erection

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition		$5,000,000 to $20,000,000	1	15	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1022967.015	33	M	Fatality		Strctural Iron /& Steel Worker	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Steel Erection Of Open Web Steel Joists-Connecting Fatality Cause:

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