OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #768713

HORIZON TOWERZ, INC.

IRVING, TX· 1988-04-08T00:00:00

Event: COMMUNICATION CABLE, CRUSHED, ELEVATOR, ELEVATOR SHAFT
NAICS: 000000
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #100831031
Employer profile: HORIZON TOWERZ, INC.
Summary number: 768713
Report ID: 626300

Event description

EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN CRUSHED BY COUNTER-WEIGHT

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was securing communication cables to the wall of the elevator shaft at the ground level inside of elevator shaft number 5. Employee #1 was crushed b y the elevator counter-weight from elevator number 6.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 23 M

Nature of injury
21

Part of body
4

Event type
2

Source
24

Occupation code
999

Human factor
10

Environmental factor
6

Task assigned
1

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