OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14393573
WORK RULES,OPEN SHAFT,INTERLOCK,FALL,GRAIN ELEVATOR,ELEVATOR
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED IN FALL AT GRAIN ELEVATOR
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1 WAS LAST SEEN ON LEVEL 8 OF THE GRAIN ELEVATOR OUTSIDE THE PERSONNEL O OTHER EMPLOYEES DID NOT SEE EMPLOYEE #1 AFTER THEY ORIGINALLY GOT OFF THE ELEV ATOR. ELEVATOR AT ABOUT 3:30 ON MARCH 21, 1988. HE WAS NOT SEEN AGAIN UNTIL ABOUT 7 P M, WHEN HE WAS FOUND ON THE TOP OF THE ELEVATOR. THE NEXT DAY THE ELEVATOR OUTER DOORS AN ALL 9 LEVELS WERE INSPECTED BY CSHO WOMACK AND THE COMPANY'S REPRESENT ATIVES. THE INTER-LOCKS ON THESE DOORS EITHER DID NOT WORK AT ALL OR THEY COULD BE JARRED LOOSE BY HITTING THE DOOR IN THE TOP RIGHT CORNER AND PULLING THEM OPE N. IT CAN ONLY BE ASSUMED THAT EMPLOYEE #1 OPENED THE OUTER DOORS AT LEVEL 8, WH ERE HE AND TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES HAD GOTTEN OFF PREVIOUSLY. HE STEPPED INTO AN OPE N ELEVATOR SHAFT AND FELL AN UNKNOWN DISTANCE TO THE TOP OF THE ELEVATOR. THE TW
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 47 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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