Maintenance Worker Dies After Overhead Crane Collides With Aerial Platform At Construction Equipment Plant - North Carolina

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  A 54-year-old industrial maintenance worker (the victim) was killed when the aerial platform he was working from tipped and fell 19 feet to the floor of the construction-equipment manufacturing plant. The victim had been grinding the end of a shortened runway rail for a floor-operated overhead crane while another overhead crane was operating on an adjacent runway. As the operating crane traveled along its runway, it struck the aerial platform, knocking it off balance and causing it to tip over to the floor. When the platform and victim hit the floor, the victim sustained massive head trauma and internal injuries. Co-workers notified the emergency medical service who responded within 3 minutes, and the victim was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. NIOSH investigators concluded that, in order to prevent similar incidents, employers should: ensure that hazard assessment of work areas is conducted prior to work being performed
  
  ensure that adequate zones of safety, marked by readily discernible warning devices, are established around maintenance areas in production facilities.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Construction-equipment OSHA Region 4 Safety-measures Safety-practices Traumatic-injuries
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; 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/NIOSHFACE9714
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• 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:
  5 pages
• Contributor:
  Casini, Virgil J. ; Moore, Paul H. ; Pettit, Theodore A. ; Sniezek, Joe
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000457
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-157075
• 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:
  1998
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  56 - Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1997/06/13
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:915527af38c34838f3ae6a76c82a788be7bbfa57994a368afe207fa08c66900b0016465952642203ef9ebda81c1d43a2a5bae2b3a6d914502a53565dccdda7a7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167394/cdc_167394_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 293.85 KB ]