OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221441470
317729418 - TK ELEVATOR CORPORATION
PORTLAND, OR·
Event description
Employee fractures skull when struck by falling cable
Investigation abstract
At 10:45 a.m. on October 19, 2021, an employee was in an elevator pit, tied off The employee suffered a skull fracture and other unspecified injuries and was treated without hospitalization. to ladder feeding ropes. His coworker was in the process of pulling a new hoist rope. The coworker was using a capstan and fist-grips as the main hoist, and the cable holds as a secondary to pull up slack over the machine As the coworker was transferring the weight of the rope and getting slack to run the rope over the machine sheave, the cable grab twisted over the hasp of the lever hoist, detaching from the hook, and fell bouncing off the car top and down the hoist way. The cable grab fell between elevator platform and struck the employee on the back of his hard hat, on the back right side of his head and right shoulder.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 0 M
- Event type
- 1
- Occupation code
- 999
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