OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14549257
R H S LEE INC
HONOLULU, HI—
Event description
Employee killed when struck by falling traffic light pole
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and coworkers were demolishing a red brick wall at an excavation sit ole. The pole fell onto Employee #1, knocking him to the ground. He was killed. e. A Caterpillar 215 crawler-type backhoe was used to pull down the columned wal l in 10 ft sections. A Caterpillar 9771 clamshell, crawler-type front end loader was at the corner of two roads on the excavation site, holding an I-beam that w as positioned on the second brick column at the corner. Employee #1 was on the s treet, which police had closed to traffic, hosing down the wall. The Caterpillar 215 was pulling at approximately five and seven columns from the corner when th e wall section from columns three to seven started to fall. The top half of the second column from the corner fell onto the sidewalk, striking a traffic light p
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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