OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #822106
OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
BALTIMORE, MD·
Event description
Employee's heel fractured in fall from elevator platform
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and his foreman were installing a new elevator subfloor sill. The fo reman used the temporary controls to raise the elevator approximately 2 ft. When he pushed the button to stop the elevator, it continued to run at approximately 32 ft per second to the top of the 100 ft hoistway while Employee #1 was on the platform. The force of the impact threw him approximately 8 to 10 ft in the air before he landed on his feet, fracturing his left heel. Employee #1 required ho spitalization.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 30 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- FOOT/ANKLE (11)
- Accident type
- FALL(SAME LEVEL) (4)
- Source of injury
- HOISTING APPARATUS (24)
- Occupation
- Supervisors, mechanics and repairers (503)
- Human factor
- MALFUNC IN SECURING/WARNING OP (4)
- 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.