OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14488175
WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,HOIST,RIDING ON EQUIPMENT,CAUGHT BETWEEN,SHAFT,FALL,FALL PROTECTION
Event description
Employee killed in fall down hoist shaft
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a foreman, was riding on the car of a material hoist with two loads of brick on wooden pallets. The car was between the sixth and seventh floors wh en the handle of the pallet jack became caught between the car platform and the frame of the hoist. Employee #1 jumped from the hoist to the platform and then f ell six floors down the hoist shaft. He was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 553
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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