OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14273247
HYDRAULIC LIFT,AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR,BRAKE,PINNED,MOTOR VEHICLE
Event description
Employee dies after pinned by car to work bench
Investigation abstract
0n May 15, 1989, Employee #1 was directing a vehicle onto a vehicle lift at a re pair garage. The driver/owner of the vehicle accidentally stepped on the acceler ator instead of the brakes. The vehicle came off the front of the lift and pinne d Employee #1 to a steel work bench. He was taken to Maine Medical Center, where he died on May 31, 1989.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 505
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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