Steel Rack Installer Dies After Being Struck by 3,000 Pound Bundle of Rack End Pieces - South Carolina: FACE 96-24

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  This report concerns the death of a 35-year-old male steel rack installer who was struck by a 3,000-pound bundle of rack ends. The employer had been subcontracted to install steel racks to be used as open shelving space in a warehouse under construction. The racks were 28 feet high and 5 feet deep and varied in width. The rack ends arrived in bundles of ten. At the time of the incident, the men needed a single rack end to complete a section of shelving. The men freed one rack end from the group of ten and were guiding the remaining retied package of nine back to the storage area when the bundle became unstable and tipped over, striking the victim, and pinning him to the concrete floor. He died 16 days later due to crushing injuries to the trunk. Recommendations included evaluating material handling practices to ensure the safest possible work environment, training employees in the recognition of hazards and methods to control them, and developing, implementing, and enforcing, a comprehensive written safety program.
• Subjects:
  • Accident Prevention
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Construction Industry
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Metal Workers
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 4
  • FACE-96-24
  • Accident-analysis
  • Accident-prevention
  • Safety-research
  • Construction-workers
  • Construction-industry
  • Traumatic-injuries
  • Construction-Search
• 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/NIOSHFACE9624
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  South 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 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Casini, Virgil J. ; Pettit, Theodore A. ; Stout, Nancy A.
• Volume:
  1996
• Issue:
  24
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00234999
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB97-147045
• 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:
  1997
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  1996/07/25
• Resource Number:
  FACE 96-24
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167419/cdc_167419_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 182.00 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:19796f7ad3a1d883c544b591c28c1e2d77e9f2ceaaa5a3e473f17a5b5bdeaa5f534edf13344e4436e5c14635ddda95b94ab2d0513ba53212f3ed1d5887a55447