OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14352397
BENDER SHIPBUILDING AND REPAIR COMPANY INC
MOBILE, AL—
Event description
Crane operator killed in cab of overturned crane
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating a rail-mounted crane on the wingwall of a floating dry l 38 ft from atop the wingwall into the steel berthing barge. Employee #1 was cr ushed inside the cab of the crane and killed instantly. -dock, attempting to remove a sand-hopper from the deck of an oil tanker under r epair. A sand-hopper is a portable cylindrical container used to store sand for sandblasting operations. The sand-hopper alone weighed approximately 8 tons and was filled with approximately 3 to 5 yards of sand, for a total weight of approx imately 30,000 pounds or 15 tons. The load was attached to the crane's main hois tline (25 ton capacity). Employee #1 swung the load over the dry-dock wingwall a nd traveled down to the north end. While lowering the load, he apparently exceed ed the crane's capacity at that particular boom radius, causing the crane to fal
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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