OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #893743
ASBESTOS ENGINEERING
ALEXANDRIA, VA·
Event description
Employee injured when struck by elevator
Investigation abstract
On the morning of March 16, 1989, Employee #1 and his foreman, both of whom work ce and then the back of his head. He suffered severe lacerations and was hospita lized. Neither employee was wearing fall protection, nor were there guardrails a top either elevator car. From the location of the accident, the employees could have fallen approximately 40 to 50 ft to the bottom of the shaft. ed for an asbestos removal company, were removing asbestos residue from a high p ressure water wash within an elevator shaft that housed two passenger cars. They were on the roof of car #2 setting up a vacuum cleaner, drop light, and power c ord. Car #2 had been placed in a hand-controlled inspection mode, while car #1 w as left in service for building employees and the public. Car #2 was located at the fifth floor, and as the foreman started to move it down, Employee #1 noticed a particle of possible asbestos on the underside of car #1. He was reaching acr oss to examine it when car #1 started down, catching his arm and striking his fa
Victim
-
#1 Hospitalized Age 27 Male
- Nature of injury
- Cut/Laceration (7)
- Part of body
- FACE (9)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- OTHER (43)
- Occupation
- Construction laborers (869)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Hazardous substance
- 9020
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
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.