OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #659771
U.S. PARTITIONS, INCORPORATED
REVERE, MA·
Event description
Employee killed in fall down elevator shaft
Investigation abstract
At approximately 8:17 a.m. on January 23, 1988, Employee #1, a foreman, was on t he 12th floor of a building placing two 2 by 6 planks across an elevator shaft s o he could stand on the planks and pull a 2 by 9 piece of core board into place. When he stepped on the boards, they broke and he fell approximately 100 feet on to the roof of an elevator car that was parked on the second floor. Employee #1 was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 51 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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