OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #811315
OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
CAROLINA, PR·
Event description
Employee killed in fall when planks slip off jack
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and coworkers were standing on wooden planks that formed a platform held up by a jack. The planks came off the jack, causing Employee #1 to fall 88 ft down an elevator shaft to the floor. He died of multiple fractures.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 543
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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