OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14471494
BROOM,FALL,ELEVATOR,ELEVATOR SHAFT
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED IN FALL INTO ELEVATOR SHAFT
Investigation abstract
At approximately 1:00 p.m. on January 3, 1990, Employee #1 was attempting to fre e a building tenant from the car of an elevator that was stuck on the first floo r. He was unable to open the elevator door from the first floor and proceeded to bring the adjacent service elevator down along side the stuck passenger car. He opened the service elevator door on the second floor, got on the roof of servic e elevator and crossed over to the passenger car roof. He was forcing the door o pen with a broom handle when the passenger elevator suddenly became activated an d began to go to the upper floors. Employee #1 fell from the roof of the elevato r car into the shaft and was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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