OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14499024
ESCO ELEVATOR, INC.
HOUSTON, TX·
Event description
Employee crushed and killed in elevator pit
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was in an elevator pit cleaning up oil. He turned on the pit switch and the elevator came down, crushing him against a concrete beam at the rear of the pit. Employee #1 was killed. The elevator's electrical power system was not locked out or tagged out.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 39 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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