Accident Report Detail
Accident: 201924180 - Employee Killed When Heat Exchanger Overturns While Moving
Accident: 201924180 -- Report ID: 0626700 -- Event Date: 07/24/2007 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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310263868 | 07/25/2007 | 1799 | Turner Industries Group, L.L.C. | ||||
At approximately 2:40 p.m. on July 24, 2007, Employee #1 was helping to remove a heat exchanger from a structure. The heat exchanger was mounted on Hilman rollers atop metal skids that were being pulled with a truck-mounted winch. As it was moving, the heat exchanger tipped over and crushed Employee #1 against a steel column within the structure. He was killed. | |||||||
Keywords:
derrick truck, unsecured, work rules, construction, caught between, crushed, mech mat handling, bracing, overturn
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Refinery | Maintenance or repair | Under $50,000 | 1 | 4 | X | ||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 310263868 | Fatality | Bruise/Contus/Abras | Occupation not reported | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Demolition FatCause: Caught in stationary equipment |