OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #732982
THAMER CONSTRUCTION CO. INC.
GREENWOOD, SC—
Event description
Employee's leg injured when struck by crane boom
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and coworkers were making a 22 foot high concrete wall. A FMC crane, model HC-78B, was being used to lift the concrete in buckets. A bolt that was h olding the boom hoist broke, causing the boom to fall. Employee #1's legs became caught between the wall and the crane boom, resulting in cuts and lacerations t o his lower legs. He was not hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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