Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170110092 - Employee killed when crushed by concrete beam

Accident Summary Nr: 170110092 -- Report ID: 0111400 -- Event Date: 07/01/1992
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
107539546	07/01/1992	1622	0	Kiewit/Atkinson/Kenny, A Joint Venture
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
107539579	07/09/1992	1542	0	T.P.S. Construction Corporation
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
107539561	07/02/1992	7353	0	S.G. Marino Crane Service Incorporated
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
107539553	07/01/1992	1542	0	Barletta/O'Connell Joint Venture
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
107539587	07/01/1992	8741	0	Icf Kaiser Engineers Of Massachusetts

Abstract: Employees were constructing a precast concrete collar beam to support a manhole lid at the surface entrance of a tunnel shaft. The collar beam consisted of two 12 ft diameter precast concrete rings with a butyl rubber gasket between them. The day before the accident, the top segment was set on top of the base segment without the required gasket. The next day, a Link Belt LS-718 crawler crane was borrowed from the contractor at the adjacent site, and used to hoist the top segment 4 ft above the base segment. Three employees and an independent truck driver began applying the gasket material to the lip of the base segment with the top segment suspended directly above them. After warning the foreman of the hazard of working under the load, the crane operator activated a safety switch designed to engage the spring-applied brakes and locking pawls on all drums. The load came through the brake and pawl and pinned Employee #1's head and arms between the two segments. Later that afternoon, Employee #1 died of multiple head injuries caused by blunt trauma.

Keywords: HEAD, SUSPENDED LOAD, STRUCK BY, CONCRETE BEAM, PINNED, CONSTRUCTION, CRUSHED, ARM, FALLING OBJECT

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	107539546	Fatality	Other	Occupation not reported
2	107539579			Occupation Not Listed
3	107539561			Occupation Not Listed
4	107539553			Occupation Not Listed
5	107539587			Occupation Not Listed

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