Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221535198

LUCIO LUCAS

Event
Anchor, Blunt force trauma, Crushed, Falling Object, Lifting, Malfunction, Rigging, Struck By, Tag Line, Tower Crane, Wood Panel
NAICS
238130
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#346485014
Employer profile
LUCIO LUCAS
Summary number
221535198
Report ID
0454712
Project type
A
Construction end-use
C

Event description

Employee is killed when struck by wood panel

Investigation abstract

At 7:45 a.m. on January 30, 2023, an employee attached rigging from a tower crane to a 40-foot by 8-foot wooden panel. The employee was using a tagline to guide the panel as the crane lifted it when the anchor points in the panel failed and the panel fell on top of him. The employee died due to crushing and traumatic injuries.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 35 M

    Event type
    1
    Occupation code
    567

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.