Massachusetts Piledriver Dies When Struck By Pile in Trench

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• Corporate Authors:
  Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE) ; Massachusetts. Department of Public Health
• Description:
  On March 11, 1998, a 47 year old male construction worker was fatally injured when he was struck by an wooden pile weighing approximately 1500 pounds. The 50 foot long pile was suspended within the leads of a pile driving crane while the victim was setting the bottom of the pile. He was working in a 15 foot deep trench at the time of the incident. According to co-workers, the hammer was lowered by the crane operator and struck the pile before it was set causing it to swing into the victim. The victim was pushed into the wall of the trench box and killed. Emergency medical assistance was immediately summoned while co-workers attempted to assist him. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene and transported to the medical examiner's office. To prevent future similar occurrences, the MA FACE Director concluded that employers should: 1. Employ only competent crane operators experienced in the type of equipment to be operated, in this case, a piledriver. 2. Develop and maintain a health and safety program which includes but is not limited to regular consultation with employees on safety issues. Also, the state and/or other certifying agencies should consider issuing a special license for the operation of cranes as piledriver's.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Health Promotion Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-workers Equipment-operators Health-programs Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 1 Protective-measures Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-programs Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Construction ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE98MA021
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028485
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-106561
• Citation:
  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, FACE 98MA021, 1999 Aug ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Performing Organization:
  Massachusetts Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1992/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:349526c08d1eba7202f2b45337879ad3206d5806fa8e1dba24c8e4cf98d618fecd52d54c596d1e94e2fd25878dbdab0e743d807cef33c3cb36d0382abeabd47c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166610/cdc_166610_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 23.89 KB ]