OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14540587
DOVER ELEVATOR COMPANY, INCORPORATED
NORTH QUINCY, MA·
Event description
Employee killed in fall down elevator shaft
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was erecting sections of a tubular welded-frame scaffold inside an e nclosed elevator shaft. He was attempting to leave the shaft through the future door opening of a second shaft (elevator #2), in which a standard wooden guardra il had been installed. Employee #1 stepped off the scaffold and onto the concret e sill for elevator #2. He then tried to jump over the guardrail while supposedl y holding onto a cement block. The block allegedly broke, causing Employee #1 to fall three floors into the elevator pit. He was killed. It was later determined that Employee #1 may not have grabbed the block, but had tried to grab it and m issed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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