OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221519358

STERETT CRANE AND RIGGING LLC

ROXANA, IL— 2022-12-06T00:00:00

Event: Back, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Counterweight, Crane, Crane Cab, Crane Counterweight, Crane Load, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Falling Object, Fracture, Frame, Head, Hip, Leg, Lifting, Pelvis, Reactor, Refinery, Sheared, Struck By, Support Posts
NAICS: 532412
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346378474
Employer profile: STERETT CRANE AND RIGGING LLC
Summary number: 221519358
Report ID: 0524530
Project type: A
Construction end-use: E

Event description

One employee is killed and another is injured in crane colla

Investigation abstract

At 10:45 a.m. on December 6, 2022, employee #1, the lift director, and coworkers load in the pipe rack. The superstructure counterweights fell from their racks and struck the crane cab knocking it under the boom. Employee #1 was killed due to head trauma. Employee #2, the crane operator, was hospitalized to treat head, back, hip, pelvis, and lower leg injuries as he fell from and exited the cab. were installing a new kerosene hydrotreater reactor on its foundation at an oil refinery. The employees were lifting the reactor with a Terex 2800 Lattice Boom Track Crane when it tipped over and fell into a process flare line. Shackles had been installed the previous day to connect the super-lift counterweight frame to the connecting rods. Specific connecting rods were required by the manufacturer. During the lift, the two counterweight frame connectors sheared. The super-lift support rods became immediately free from the super-lift counterweight frame and fell with one section striking the head of employee #1. The crane dropped the

Victims (2)

#1 Fatality Age 47 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
7013
#2 Hospitalized Age 37 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
7013

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