Accident Report Detail
Accident: 743468 - One Employee Killed, Three Injured In Fall From Girder
Accident: 743468 -- Report ID: 0951510 -- Event Date: 06/05/1990 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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103835690 | 06/05/1990 | 1622 | Hawaiian Dredging & Construction Co | ||||
At approximately 2:00 p.m. on June 5, 1990, Employees #1, #2, #3, and #4, working in pairs, were unhooking the load line of a crane from a girder, which had been set on piers 20 and 21. The 48-ton girder was 92 ft long and 40 to 50 ft high. Employees #1 through #4 had just finished unhooking the load line when the girder started to tilt and fall. All four employees fell to the ground. Employee #1 was crushed by the girder and killed. Employee #2 suffered a broken back and was hospitalized. Employees #3 and #4 received multiple internal injuries that left them paralyzed. | |||||||
Keywords:
fracture, paralysis, girder, work rules, construction, crushed, fall, fall protection
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Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | |
1 | 103835690 | Fatality | Amputation | Carpenters | |||
2 | 103835690 | Hospitalized injury | Fracture | Carpenters | |||
3 | 103835690 | Hospitalized injury | Fracture | Carpenters | |||
4 | 103835690 | Hospitalized injury | Fracture | Carpenter apprentices |