Aerial Lift Safety: Hazard Alert [2005]

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• Corporate Authors:
  Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Description:
  About 26 construction workers die each year from using aerial lifts. More than half of the deaths involve boom-supported lifts, such as bucket trucks and cherry pickers; most of the other deaths involve scissor lifts. Electrocutions, falls, and tipovers cause most of the deaths. Other causes include being caught between the lift bucket or guardrail and object (such as steel beams or joists) and being struck by falling objects. (A worker can also be catapulted out of a bucket, if the boom or bucket is struck by something.) Most of the workers killed are electrical workers, laborers, painters, ironworkers, or carpenters. Before Operating an Aerial Lift Check operating and emergency controls, safety devices (such as, outriggers and guardrails), personal fall protection gear, wheels and tires, and other items specified by the manufacturer. Look for possible leaks (air, hydraulic fluid, and fuel-system) and loose or missing parts. Check where the lift will be used. Look for a level surface that won't shift. Check the slope of the ground or floor; do not work on steep slopes that exceed slope limits listed by the manufacturer. Look for hazards, such as, holes, drop-offs, bumps, and debris, and overhead power lines and other obstructions. Set outriggers, brakes, and wheel chocks - even if you're working on a level slope. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accident Prevention Accidents Automobiles Construction Industry Construction Materials Electric Injuries Electricity Emergencies Environmental Exposure Environmental Monitoring Environmental Pollution Ferrous Compounds Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Metal Workers Mortality Occupational Health Paint Safety Safety Management Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Construction Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-materials Construction-workers Electric-power-transmission-lines Electrical-workers Electrocutions Emergency-equipment Environmental-control Environmental-hazards Equipment-design Equipment-operators Equipment-reliability Fall-protection Ground-control Ground-stability Hazards Height-factors Hydraulic-equipment Hydraulic-fluids Injuries Injury-prevention Iron-workers Machine-guarding Machine-operation Machine-operators Mortality-data Motor-vehicle-parts Motor-vehicles Outdoors Overloading Painters Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-valves Slope-stability Surface-properties Transport-mechanisms Traumatic-injuries Work-environment Work-practices Worker-health

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• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Subseries:
  Hazard Alert
• Publisher:
  The Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039429
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: The Center to Protect Workers' Rights, 2005 Aug; :1-2
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040801
• End Date:
  20090630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7c4fd37c983fff8090176ce33a98d88421292f663e0923e1575bcf0cb3dbc24abe653a32c845a0847fc2da1399a09af77031dcb3a246f8ef1712b0678c866201
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/213062/cdc_213062_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 41.19 KB ]