OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14297493
KELLS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY INC.
FALLSTON, MD—
Event description
Employee dies of heart attack after being struck by hoist
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was attempting to place a scrap tag on a defective van at a shuttle transfer point on line J. The line was stopped when he entered the transfer poin t area (the location where vans are moved from one shuttle to another by a compu ter-operated electric hoist), but it started again while he was standing at the transfer point. When the hoist moved into position at the transfer point, it str uck Employee #1 and knocked him into the shuttle. He was seen climbing out of th e shuttle before he passed out. Employee #1 was examined at the scene by the com pany doctor and was found to have suffered a massive heart attack. He was pronou nced dead at Francis Scott Key Medical Center.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 46 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 785
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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