Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170094064 - Struck by Falling Derrick Boom

Accident Summary Nr: 170094064 -- Report ID: 0522500 -- Event Date: 11/05/1992
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
18178707	11/05/1992	4813	0	Ohio Bell Telephone Company

Abstract: A telephone company employee was standing on the ground, assisting the operator of an R. O. Corp. Polejocky series PJ200 digger-derrick in the removal of the butt of a wooden utility pole. The derrick was mounted on a 1986 International Harvester utility truck. The company's safe operating procedures for removing a pole butt called for the use of a pole butt jack. However, the employer allowed the use of the derrick in this operation, in direct violation of these procedures. The equipment operator was using the boom of the derrick to pull the pole butt out of the ground. The welds securing the boom to the turret broke. This allowed the boom to fall, and it struck the employee standing on the ground in the head. He died of his injuries.

Keywords: DIGGER-DERRICK, HEAD, TELECOM WORK, BOOM, STRUCK BY, FALLING OBJECT, UTILITY POLE, COMMUNICATION WORKER

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	18178707			Fatality	Fracture	Telephone line installers and repairers

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