OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14549554
DICK WRIGHT HARDWARE COMPANY INC
KNOXVILLE, TN—
Event description
EMPLOYEE CRUSHED BY FALLING METAL DOORS
Investigation abstract
DURING HIS REGULAR LUNCH PERIOD, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS ASSISTING A FELLOW EMPLOYEE IN AND FELL FORWARD, FACE FIRST, IN FRONT OF THE FALLING DOORS. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS KIL LED INSTANTLY WHEN HIS HEAD WAS CRUSHED UNDER THE WEIGHT OF 6 OR 7 OF THE DOORS. THE SHIPPING DEPARTMENT. THEY WERE PLACING SHIPPING LABELS ONTO 8 METAL DOORS. ( 7 DOORS WEIGHED 104 POUNDS APIECE, THE EIGHTH DOOR WEIGHED 92 POUNDS.) THE DOORS WERE STACKED, LEANING, AGAINST THE WALL. AS THE SHIPPING DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEE PU LLED A DOOR AWAY FROM THE STACK AND AFFIXED THE SHIPPING LABEL, EMPLOYEE #1 WOUL D HOLD IT IN A VERTICAL POSITION (AWAY FROM THE WALL). THIS LEAD TO A PROGRESSIV ELY HEAVIER LOAD FOR EMPLOYEE #1. WHILE THEY WERE AFFIXING A LABEL TO ONE OF THE LAST DOORS, THE STACK SHIFTED. THE SHIPPING DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEE WARNED EMPLOYEE #1 TO GET OUT OF THE WAY. AS EMPLOYEE #1 STEPPED BACKWARD, HE LOST HIS FOOTING
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 56 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 783
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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