Two Truck Drivers Die After Cement Tank Collapses - Virginia: FACE 96-22

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  The collapse of a cement filled tank at a concrete facility resulted in the deaths of a 31 old truck driver and a 29-year-old truck driver. The manager of the facility was loading trucks when the system which transported the aggregate to the weigh hopper under one tank began to malfunction. The manager began a trouble shooting procedure to determine the cause, and the two truck drivers decided to help while waiting for their trucks to be loaded. The manager noted that the drive belt from the motor to the head roller on the conveyor was slipping. One of the men assisting had ascended about one third of the way up the belt which was locked out and tagged. At this point the tank started to topple toward the belt. The three workers were trapped beneath the tank. The manager was injured, and both truck drivers died. The first victim died of multiple internal injuries and the second due to massive head injuries. Subsequent investigations revealed severe corrosion to the legs supporting the tank. Recommendations noted that regular structural inspections and evaluations be made to ensure that facility structures are maintained in good repair.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Construction Industry
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Motor Vehicle
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 3
  • FACE-96-22
  • Accident-analysis
  • Safety-research
  • Equipment-reliability
  • Traumatic-injuries
  • Truck-drivers
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE9622
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Virginia ; OSHA Region 3
• 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:
  6 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Casini, Virgil J. ; Moore, Paul H. ; Pettit, Theodore A. ; Stout, Nancy A.
• Volume:
  1996
• Issue:
  22
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00233664
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB97-130819
• 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:
  1996
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  1996/03/14
• Resource Number:
  FACE 96-22
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167421/cdc_167421_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 263.29 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c0e0aa2c7c34e733e53eca28ca2824778e2b1c8ef24c6efe98ec013401ca172bded7560d08fba41430c41ec04d815eb94ebc7cec2391cc496bf6840fc9af0f16