OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14525844
GUARDRAIL,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,FLOOR OPENING,ELEVATOR SHAFT
Event description
Employee killed in 20 ft fall down elevator shaft
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was doing some electrical work on the third level of a building unde r construction when he fell 20 ft down an unguarded elevator shaft to the first level. He was taken to the hospital, where he died.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 576
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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