Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 802074 - TEN EMPLOYEES INJURED WHEN CRANE SUSPENDED PLATFORM FALLS

Accident Summary Nr: 802074 -- Report ID: 0454510 -- Event Date: 06/30/1989
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
107827818	06/30/1989	1522	0	Coker Builders Inc.

Abstract: A personnel platform suspended from a one-part line on an 18-ton P & H Omega crane Serial Number 44074 was being used to lower ten employees (Employees #1-10) from the roof of a 46-foot high building to the ground for a break. The platform descent was too rapid and the operator could not slow it before hitting the ground. All ten employees were hospitalized with fractures to feet, legs, sternum, jaws, and back injuries.

Keywords: PLATFORM, FRACTURE, FALL, CRANE OPERATOR, CRANE

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	107827818	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Carpenters
2	107827818	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Carpenters
3	107827818	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Supervisors; brickmasons, stonemasons, tilesetters
4	107827818	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Carpenters
5	107827818	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Carpenters
6	107827818	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Carpenters
7	107827818	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Carpenters
8	107827818	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Supervisors; brickmasons, stonemasons, tilesetters
9	107827818	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Carpenters
10	107827818	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Carpenters

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