OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14340251
TRAYLOR BROTHERS, INC.
NATCHEZ, MS—
Event description
Employee killed in fall to barge from elevated crane cab
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 had been on a barge operating a Manitowoc 3900 crawler crane with el d previously been broken. evated cab, serial #39735. He had just finished work for the day and was using a rope to lower his lunch container to the barge's deck. He was standing on a 25 inch wide by 6 foot long expanded metal work platform next to the elevated opera tor's cab, and was leaning against a 3/4 inch pipe that was being used as the to p rail. The pipe broke out of an elbow connection and Employee #1 fell 23 1/2 fe et onto the barge. He sustained multiple injuries to his head and body and died approximately 15 hours later of cardiopulmonary arrest. There were indications t hat welds connecting the top rail's two corner anchoring posts to the midrail ha
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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