Equipment Operator Dies Following Crane Overturn Incident

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• Personal Author:
  Pue, Howard ; Ray, Thomas D.
• Corporate Authors:
  Missouri Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MO FACE) ; Missouri. Department of Health
• Description:
  On August 25, 1999, a 60-year-old certified crane operator was killed after attempting to jump clear from a 14.5-ton overturning crane. The operator was lifting bundles of steel roof joists from a trailer and over a 30-foot concrete wall. The crane became unsteady as it rotated the load from the back of the crane to the side. The crane tipped up onto the outriggers twice before overturning completely onto its side. The operator tried to escape from the tipping crane but became pinned by the crane as it tipped to its side. Workers used two other near-by cranes and EMS used inflatable pillows to lift the overturned crane off of the operator. He was taken to a local trauma center where he died a short time later. The MO FACE investigator concluded that, to prevent similar occurrences, all employers should: 1. ensure that cranes are operated within their limits of stability as determined by the manufacturer-supplied capacity charts
  
  2. ensure that the weights of objects lifted by a crane be determined by a competent person, as defined by OSHA, and the weight be posted clearly and visibly on the object prior to being lifted
  
  3. develop, implement, and enforce a comprehensive written safety program which includes, but is not limited to, strict conformance with the equipment manufacturer's recommended safe operating procedures for crane set-up and lift configurations
  
  4. ensure that all cranes are equipped with load moment indicators and maintain those indicators according to the manufacturer's specifications. Additionally, manufacturers of steel building components should: 5. consider clearly and visibly identifying each steel building component with its corresponding weight.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Nervous System Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Construction Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-workers Equipment-design Equipment-operators Head-injuries Injuries Injury-prevention Occupational-accidents Occupational-safety-programs OSHA Region 7 Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-programs Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Construction
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE99MO090
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Missouri ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  7 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026275
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-111082
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 99MO090, 2005 Sep ; :1-7
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Performing Organization:
  Missouri Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2002/03/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f7c8d8224b21f0cf1e06f507c2724b7ae3d6502a099f4d73511b0c0b5669075e56961901e6abd2676a2c83811f2772fb20032153bc98a5ff05d17821272b188d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170258/cdc_170258_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 35.63 KB ]