OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #734277
DOVER ELEVATOR COMPANY
GREENVILLE, SC·
Event description
Employee injured in fall from ladder
Investigation abstract
Employees were preparing to remove a hoist from the ceiling area of an elevator to the foot of the ladder was in excess of 8 ft, exceeding 1/4 of the ladder len gth. shaft. A 22 ft extension ladder (11 ft unextended) was set up from the third lev el slab area to the top of the back wall of the elevator shaft. Employee #1 asce nded to within three rungs of the top while a coworker held the ladder. Employee #1 turned, sat down on the ladder, and began releasing the hoist from the ceili ng. The ladder began to slide down the wall and Employee #1 fell 32 ft to a ladd er set up on the first level elevator shaft. He sustained a fractured neck and h ead, along with a blood clot on the brain, for which he was hospitalized. The la dder had been set up so that the horizontal distance from the top of the ladder
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 27 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- LADDER (25)
- Occupation
- Supervisors, mechanics and repairers (503)
- Human factor
- EQUIP. INAPPROPR FOR OPERATION (6)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.