Accident Report Detail
Accident: 121802.015 - Employee Is Killed When Crushed By Galvanized Steel Ring
Accident: 121802.015 -- Report ID: 0751910 -- Event Date: 11/14/2019 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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1445528.015 | 11/15/2019 | Midwest Tank Llc | |||||
At 10:00 a.m. on November 14, 2019, Employee #1 and a coworker, a forklift opera tor, were working on a commercial construction project. Employee #1 was removin g bolts from a bin jack attached to a 6,300 lbs., (center ring for the roof of a digester tank). The coworker lowered the center ring section of a large diges ter tank to a Jib of a fully extended, JCB 512 rough terrain, forklift and Emplo yee #1 then placed himself under the galvanized center ring of the 6,300 lbs. ri ng. As Employee #1 pried on the bin jack to remove a bolt, the bolt finally bec ame free and the rough terrain forklift center and outer ring then fell on and c rushed Employee #1 on the concrete floor below. The coworker then worked to try to move the boom and the ring off of Employee #1; however, after being crushed b y the weight of the steel ring, Employee #1 then sustained fatal injuries to the chest and head and was killed. | |||||||
Keywords:
bolt, bolting, boom, caught between, chest, chest pain, collapse, concrete, construction, construction vehicle, contact, crushed, dismantling, fall, forklift, head, operator, ring, steel, tank
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Tower, tank, storage elevator | New project or new addition | X | |||||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Construction | |
1 | 1445528.015 | 32 | M | Fatality | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Emplacing reinforcing steel FatCause: |