OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14467286
EBASCO CONSTRUCTORS INC
WADSWORTH, TX—
Event description
Employee killed when crane rigging fails and load falls
Investigation abstract
At approximately 9:40 a.m. on January 26, 1985, Employee #1 and coworkers were p d been replaced with two 1 in. eyebolts when the platform was moved about 10 day s before the accident. These new eyebolts held at that time, but during this mov e they pulled out of the 1 1/8 in. nuts, and the platform fell. reparing to lift a 10 1/2 ft by 12 ft steel platform from the ground to a shaft on the 95 ft high roof level of a building under construction. The rigger hooked up the approximately 3500 lb platform, and the crane lifted it to a point appro ximately 25 ft above the shaft. Employee #1, a flagman, was hooking up sound-act ivated headphones when the eyebolts pulled out of the load and it fell, striking and killing him. The platform had been built on site and originally had 1 1/8 i n. eyebolts on the four corners, with the corresponding nuts welded to the under side. The original eyebolts had disappeared sometime before the accident, and ha
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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