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Crane tips over on barge.

Nebraska Department of Labor

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 96NE043, 1997 May; :1-5

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/face/stateface/ne/96ne043.html

20027857

A 39-year-old crane operator was killed when the crawler crane he was operating on a barge tipped over. The crane impacted a piece of equipment on the barge and he was crushed in the crane's cab. At the time of the incident the victim was lifting a diesel piledriver weighing approximately 15,500 pounds and he apparently overboomed for that weight and the crane tipped over. The crane was not positively secured to the barge at the time of the incident. The Nebraska Department of Labor investigator concluded that to prevent future similar occurrences: 1. Employers and employees must ensure that correct crane load charts are used and that they are never exceeded. 2. Employers must ensure that cranes are positively secured to barges prior to use. 3. Employers should consider implementing a spot inspection program to ensure all employees are complying with safety requirements and enforce consequences for noncompliance.

Region-7; Accident-analysis; Accident-prevention; Accidents; Injuries; Injury-prevention; Traumatic-injuries; Work-operations; Work-analysis; Work-areas; Work-performance; Work-practices; Safety-education; Safety-equipment; Safety-measures; Safety-monitoring; Protective-measures; Equipment-operators; Construction-equipment

19970506

Field Studies; Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation

Cooperative Agreement

1997

PB2011-102029

A01

FACE-96NE043; Cooperative-Agreement-Number-U60-CCU-709864

NAICS-23

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

NE; WV

Nebraska Department of Labor