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Accident: 14353213 - Three Killed, Two Injured By Uplifting Bridge Leaf

Accident: 14353213 -- Report ID: 0419700 -- Event Date: 05/10/1993
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
11013308905/11/19931622Seacoast Metal Products, Inc.
Employees #1 through #5 and three coworkers were removing and replacing steel roadway gratings and supporting beams on a leaf of a bascule bridge from which the machinery had been removed. The leaf could not be locked in the down position. The leaf was held in the closed position only by maintaining balance on the trunnions and by a single wire rope that ran from the rear of the counterweight to an uplift beam. The leaf suddenly and unexpectedly lifted, causing the employees to fall along or jump from the uplifting leaf. Employees #1, #2, and #3 were crushed and killed by the falling roadway grating. Employees #4 and #5 were injured either by jumping or being thrown from the rising leaf.
Keywords: unsecured, construction, grating, crushed, fall, bridge
Employee # Inspection Age Sex Degree Nature Occupation
1 110133089 Hospitalized injury Bruise/Contus/Abras Occupation not reported
2 110133089 Fatality Other Occupation not reported
3 110133089 Fatality Other Occupation not reported
4 110133089 Non Hospitalized injury Bruise/Contus/Abras Occupation not reported
5 110133089 Fatality Other Occupation not reported

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