Crane Accident

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Last week at the Chevron Refinery in Pascagoula a incident occurred when a 240 ton crane turned over backwards with no load.

Apparently the outriggers had been retracted on one side of the crane to get them out of a roadway during the night. When the day operator came in the following morning he did not do a walk around, got in crane and swung around in a high boom configuration and turned over backwards. This is a good reminder of the importance of the need to do a walk-around before starting the operation of any crane. Take a couple of minutes to check what might be different before you start work. If we become complacent it can happen to the best of us.

This certainly amplifies how easily human error significantly contributes to an incident and the importance of good, comprehensive and timely communication between shifts/personnel

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Tags: accident, crane, no, outrigger

Comment by usetoodrill on September 24, 2010 at 12:35pm: Someone should have posted a note on the crane levers explaining the outriggers were up....

Comment by Thad Pennington on September 24, 2010 at 1:45pm: Not Good

Comment by Ron Clouse on September 24, 2010 at 6:56pm: how many times have you seen stupid s*** like that happen.Because people have there heads up their a**

Comment by Larry Shafenberg on September 24, 2010 at 9:19pm: No pre-job/pre-tour safety meetings held or what? Let's be careful out there.

Comment by Steve on September 24, 2010 at 10:46pm: I think a hair follicle test is in order !! OOPs wont fly on this one and sh** can only roll in one direction on this one.. Men be careful out there wheres your spotter on a 240 ton aint no (stinger) !!!

Comment by aadje on September 25, 2010 at 12:31pm: It is a bad thing this happend,but it is a wake up call for all us crane operators.
Even for the ones like me that work on a crane that is on a jack up barge.
Here we see that a toolbox meeting or a good handover is in place

Comment by Ron on September 25, 2010 at 10:06pm: No excuse for this to of happened. The "operator" that was going to be using the crane FAILED to do a basic pre-use inspection.

Nothing different than a aircraft pilot doing a pre-flight inspection or a trucker doing a pre-trip inspection...a simple walk around look/see without a coffee cup or cell phone is priceless.

Taking a team approach to prevent something similar...beyond a sticky note...a simple lockout device on the cranes master switch or door, with a note attached.

Comment by Bunjamin on September 30, 2010 at 10:43am: Sorry, this is not interrupted .... just like its not 240 tons .. but 24 tons.
Do not be angry ..... I am a materialman onshore. So I see him trim, this 24 tons. If 200 tons of no wheels. But the chain wheel.

Bunjamin. Indonesia

Comment by Bunjamin on September 30, 2010 at 10:52am: From what I see, this never happened at my place of work onshore in because jack hidroloic down one / get into the floor. If operators do not panic, he will play his tower crane so it will not happen like this.

Comment by master dave on October 3, 2010 at 2:26pm: I have ran a LOT of truck cranes I cant beleve a operator would just get in the cab and start the machine and swing it around he must have not even done a pre run cheak things like engine oil and hydrolic fluids cables ect you would have to be really be off your game not to see some thing as the legs not out and down tighly and level on there pads !!! along with warning tape and cones in the swing area And I cant get a job back in this area !!!

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