OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14393268
ECCO STEEL INC
NEW ORLEANS, LA—
Event description
Employee killed when struck by crane boom
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing atop a 160-ft-high by 33-in.-diameter silo in a cement d into the pipe handrail, causing the boom to collapse and fall. The boom struck Employee #1 on the head, killing him. storage terminal, giving signals to a crane. The crane, which had a 160-ft-long main boom and a 50-ft-jig, was fitted with a scraper device. The H-shaped scrape r was constructed of 8-in.-diameter pipe with a 20-ft-long center piece made of two 10-ft-long pieces, perpendicular to the smaller pipe. The scraper was lowere d through a hole in the top of the silo and raised and lowered to loosen cement powder that had stuck to the sides of the silo. Apparently the scraper was lower ed too far and cement powder broke loose from the sides, covering the scraper wi th approximately 35 ft of cement. This pulled the jig boom forward about 3 ft an
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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