NIOSH Alert: Preventing Worker Injuries and Deaths from Mobile Crane Tip-Over, Boom Collapse, and Uncontrolled Hoisted Loads

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) requests assistance in preventing injuries and deaths of workers exposed to mobile crane tip-over, boom collapse, and uncontrolled hoisted loads. Recent NIOSH investigations suggest that workers may not fully recognize the hazards associated with operating or working near mobile cranes. Crane tip-overs can result from operating a crane outside the manufacturer's recommended safe lifting capacity. Booms can collapse for reasons such as overloading, improper disassembly procedures, and improper rigging. Both crane tip-over and boom collapse can result in workers being struck by parts of the crane or uncontrolled hoisted loads. This Alert describes six incidents resulting in the deaths of eight workers and injuries to two others that were either working near or operating mobile cranes. In each incident, these injuries or deaths could have been prevented by using proper safety procedures such as not exceeding the crane's lift capacity; following proper set-up, maintenance and dismantling procedures; and not working under a suspended load. NIOSH requests that the information in this Alert be brought to the attention of all employers, managers, supervisors, crane operators, riggers, and ground workers in companies that own or rent mobile cranes. NIOSH requests assistance from safety and health officials, construction companies, unions, crane and rigging manufacturers, crane rental facilities, building material suppliers and manufacturers, editors of trade journals, and those positioned to communicate prevention information to employers and workers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 18-19).
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Construction Materials Facility Design And Construction Occupational Health Safety Workload Wounds And Injuries
• Keywords:
  Workers; Accident-prevention; Traumatic-injuries; Control-technology; Accident-analysis; Accidents; Injury-prevention; Injuries; Construction; Construction-equipment; Construction-industry; Construction-workers; Work-capacity; Work-practices; Construction-Search; Surveillance
• Source:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2006-142, 2006 Sep; :1-22
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Alert
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  26 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030874
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-100214
• Contact Point Address:
  Division of Safety Research, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505-2888
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:73b563b5a1f10342c143bd1ee4baec5a99c514716c45a70839e5e84a5718acf6ea56f1d2f49985154a31c895958f3946f567ec07d71aa09f9c5ea3b62757e72e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/11419/cdc_11419_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 15.77 MB ]