OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14515563
THE STACEY MANUFACTURING COMPANY
ST PETERSBURG, FL—
Event description
Employee killed when struck by falling headache ball
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was being transported from ground level to the top of an approximate ngers. He was killed. The manual fly retraction was caused by the shearing of a nonapproved safety pin. ly 75 ft tall natural gas holder. He was sitting atop a job-made compressed gas cylinder rack that held six oxygen and two mapp cylinders, and that was being ho isted by a Grove hydraulic crane, model # RT75S. The cylinder rack had been lift ed approximately 30 ft when the manual fly section retracted without warning and the rack dropped to the ground. Employee #1 was struck by the falling headache ball and suffered a fractured skull and sternum, a compound fracture of the righ t femur with almost complete severing of the leg, compound fractures of the left femur and right radius, and traumatic amputation of his left ring and little fi
Victims (3)
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#1 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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#982 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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