Fractures

Name: Fractures at Detyens Shipyards, Inc.
Start: 11/19/2017

1 hospitalization · 20171111100 · 11/19/2017 · Detyens Shipyards, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Leg(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
Source: Co-worker or work associate of injured or ill worker, unspecified
Secondary source: Cranes-tower, self-erecting, portal, pillar, hammerhead

Employer

Name: Detyens Shipyards, Inc.
Location: 1670 Drydock Avenue Bldg 236, Suite 200, NORTH CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, 29405
NAICS: 336611
Jurisdiction: 0

Narrative

The injured employee was lifting the brow from a ship in dry dock with a tower crane. The brow moved forward as it was lifted and caused a second employee to fall off the brow onto the weather deck of the ship. The falling employee struck the injured employee pushing the injured employee into the guardrails at the top of the stair platform tower resulting in fractures requiring hospitalization.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown