OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #887224
TOWN & COUNTRY PONTIAC NISSAN, INC.
PERRY HALL, MD·
Event description
Employee injured when vehicle falls off lift
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a mechanic, was performing maintenance work on the underside of a v ehicle that had been elevated using a Benwil automotive lift with a maximum capa city of 7,000 lb. The vehicle slipped from the lift and struck the employee. He sustained shoulder and back injuries, and was hospitalized. A subsequent inspect ion revealed that the lift had some defective parts.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 35 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- BACK (3)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- OTHER (43)
- Occupation
- Automobile mechanics (505)
- Human factor
- OTHER (14)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- 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.