Decapitation of a Construction Foreman: FACE 82-01

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  The case of a fatal injury to a construction foreman while supervising construction in a subway tunnel was examined. The 59-year-old male foreman was tagging a load being moved by a crane on May 18, 1982, when he was struck on the head and killed. During the lowering of a load into the subway work area by a crane which did not have its outriggers extended or set on the ground the load became caught on a ledge, causing the crane to tip over when the load suddenly became loose from the ledge. The foreman was struck on the head and killed by the crane boom as it fell toward the ground. The main causative factor in this incident was the nonusage of the outriggers to stabilize the crane, probably in an effort to minimize the street area being blocked during the operation. It was recommended that the importance of the use of outriggers be stressed and that personnel tagging crane loads be educated to observe both the load and the crane during construction operations.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Construction Industry
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Nervous System
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • FACE-82-001
  • Accident-analysis
  • Safety-research
  • Construction-equipment
  • Traumatic-injuries
  • Head-injuries
  • Construction-workers
  • Construction-Search
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Construction
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE8201
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• 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:
  2 pdf pages
• Volume:
  1982
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00217757
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB94-152162
• 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:
  1982
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  1982/05/18
• Resource Number:
  FACE 82-01
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167496/cdc_167496_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 148.72 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:441685d7836e07dd586d4ff1ad7b8c72e2ed1c7e08af953bf656ea31146db5f9171896f117f58984adb96063c93b9fa7c90d5bfe9cee5470088c52e6827c8cfe