OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1002781
ECMC MAINT DEPT
BUFFALO, NY·
Event description
Employee injured in 16 ft fall in hoist bucket
Investigation abstract
At approximately 9:00 a.m. on May 9, 1989, Employee #1 was performing maintenanc e on the leaking gear box of a facility's refuse hoist. He was standing in the b ucket cart of the hoist when it suddenly fell approximately 16 ft to the floor. Employee #1 was hospitalized with a fractured right foot and a fractured vertebr a. Although he was performing this maintenance for the first time, he had not be en instructed on how to safely access the hoist.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 53 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- HOISTING APPARATUS (24)
- Occupation
- Not specified mechanics and repairers (549)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.