OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #849448
HEAD,ELEVATOR GATE,WORK RULES,CLEANING,CONSTRUCTION,LOCKOUT,CRUSHED,ELEVATOR,COMMUNICATION
Event description
Employee killed when elevator crushed head
Investigation abstract
At approximately 11:30 a.m. on June 6, 1989, Employee #1 was wiping paint that h lashes. Her employer, unaware of the work in progress, brought the elevator down from the fifth floor. Employee #1's head was struck and crushed. She was killed . ad dripped into an elevator shaft and onto the sills and wrought iron grating. A can of paint had spilled in the elevator's cab on the top (fifth) floor of an a partment building. The paint and other materials were being taken to an apartmen t for interior decorating work. Employee #1 was on the third floor and opened or had someone open a narrow side gate that was part of the framework of the eleva tor housing alongside the main elevator entrance gate. The side gate was not ele ctrically interlocked with the elevator operation, as was the main gate. Employe e #1 reached into the elevator shaft, then into the opening to wipe the paint sp
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 22 F
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 2
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