OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #571422
JOSEPH T RYERSON & SON INC
CHICAGO, IL—
Event description
Employee Crushed by Collapsing Wall of Stacker Crane Cab
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a maintenance worker in a warehouse for carbon alloy rods and bars, was standing in the cab of a four-axis P & H Powermast overhead stacker crane ( Model No. CS 20016 with a capacity of 5 tons). He was approximately 8 feet above the floor, disengaging the crane from a minor collision with a skewed empty ste el container pan in the aisle of a storage rack. He operated the controls incorr ectly, and the crane continued in a forward direction. The protruding steel pan struck the steel sidewall of the crane, pushing it into the employee. He was cru shed to death.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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