OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14348221
MANNING ELECTRIC & REPAIR CO INC
WAYCROSS, GA—
Event description
Employee killed in fall from overhead underslung crane
Investigation abstract
At approximately 1:00 p.m. on August 23, 1984, Employee #1 and a coworker were t dent continued to watch them he saw Employee #1 standing atop the crane without a scaffold and without a safety belt that had a lanyard tied off to a lifeline. Two employees heard him shout either "Wait a minute" or "Hang on a minute" to Em ployee #1. Employee #1 fell to the concrete floor and died instantly of a fractu red skull. The facility had no lookout, no danger signs, and no barricaded floor area. old by the superintendent to get a 50 ft high, 5-ton capacity Orley Meyer overhe ad underslung crane from the northwest corner of the locomotive repair facility at the Seaboard System Railroad rice yard in Waycross, GA. The superintendent wa nted them to make up some junction boxes for the ceiling lights over the crane. From the adjacent mezzanine, he observed them ascend to the crane without taggin g and locking out the power for the lights. They moved the de-energized crane by pushing it with their feet and sliding along the rails on their posteriors with out wearing safety belts and without tying off with a lanyard. As the superinten
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 5
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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