On October 8, 1997, a 56-year-old truck driver (the victim) was crushed when a crane tipped over and the crane's boom landed on the cab of the truck in which he was sitting. The victim, who was hauling excavation material from a 16-story office building construction site, was sitting in the cab of the parked truck waiting to access the excavation site for loading. The mobile all-terrain crane had been set up in preparation for off-loading the components of a tower crane which was scheduled to arrive on site at a later time. The crane operator began to move materials and equipment to make room for off-loading the tower crane components. The crane operator had set up the crane with the left side outriggers fully extended and down, and the right side outriggers down only.


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    Title :

    Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report: Truck Driver Dies After Crane Boom Strikes Truck Cab at Construction Site, Virginia, April 3, 1998


    Publication date :

    1998


    Size :

    8 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English