Carpenter Dies After Being Struck by Uncontrolled Concrete Bucket When Crane Tips Over - Ohio: FACE 2000-12

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On October 13, 1999, a 50-year-old male carpenter (the victim) at a municipal construction site died after he was struck by a loaded concrete bucket during a crane tip-over. The victim was removing forms from a newly constructed concrete wall while a concrete finishing crew was filling empty forms about 15 to 20 feet away. Concrete was being hoisted from street level with a crawler-mounted mobile crane and landed under the direction of a roof-top spotter. As the crane operator hoisted a bucket load of concrete, swung it over the roof, and boomed out toward the empty forms, the crane lost stability, tipping toward the victim. When the crane operator realized what was occurring, he radioed a warning to the spotter who relayed the warning to roof-top workers. The victim had started to move when the uncontrolled concrete bucket swung toward him, striking his head and shoulder. Workers notified emergency personnel who responded within 6 minutes. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. NIOSH investigators concluded that, to help prevent similar occurrences: 1) employers, crane owners, and operators should ensure that cranes are operated within their safe lifting capacities as recommended by the crane manufacturer's load chart ; 2) crane owners should ensure that monitoring instruments used for guidance during hoisting operations are accurately calibrated and operating correctly ; 3) employers should develop and implement safe work procedures to ensure that workers in or near the landing area of hoisted loads are notified when loads are in the air ; 4) employers should develop and implement safe work procedures to ensure that workers and crane operators have a clear and complete understanding of the landing locations before loads are hoisted.
• Subjects:
  • Construction Industry
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
  • Workplace
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 5
  • Traumatic injuries
  • Occupational hazards
  • Occupational safety programs
  • Safety measures
  • Safety monitoring
  • Injury prevention
  • Work areas
  • Construction industry
  • Construction workers
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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Construction ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Manufacturing ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200012
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:
  8 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Moore, Paul H.
• Volume:
  2000
• Issue:
  12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20021152
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-101091
• Citation:
  Morgantown, : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  1999/10/13
• Resource Number:
  FACE 2000-12
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167372/cdc_167372_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 118.62 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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