OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14393045
ETHYL CORP
BATON ROUGE, LA—
Event description
STRUCK BY OVERTURNING TRUCK CRANE
Investigation abstract
ON MAY 15, 1985 EMPLOYEE #1 AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE INSTRUCTED TO GO TO THE RE N TO THE RIGHT AND THE CRANE TIPPED OVER INTO A SHALLOW DITCH. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS P INNED UNDER A WHEEL AND KILLED. SEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT UNIT AT THE ETHYL CORPORATION IN BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA. THEY HAD BEEN TOLD TO PICK UP AN EIGHT TON CHERRY PICKER. THEY WERE TO USE THE C HERRY PICKER TO MOVE A STORAGE RACK TO THE HYDROCARBON UNIT. THEY WERE TOLD THAT THE EIGHT TON CRANE WAS NOT AVAILABLE. THEY THEN WENT TO THE GARAGE WHERE EMPLO YEE #1 PICKED UP A GROVE RT 58 14 TON CAPACITY TRUCK CRANE (SER # 38739). THE TR UCK CRANE HAD BEEN BROUGHT IN FOR BRAKE WORK THAT MORNING. IT WAS NOT TAGGED "DO NOT OPERATE". THE KEYS HAD NOT BEEN REMOVED. AFTER EMPLOYEE #1 HAD DRIVEN THE C RANE ABOUT 700 FEET, HE DISCOVERED THAT THE BRAKES DID NOT WORK. HE TRIED TO TUR
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 50 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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