OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #968545
ROYAL RESORT
LAS VEGAS, NV·
Event description
Employee injured when caught by elevator in shaft
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was crossing from the top of one elevator car to another when the ca r he was coming from started up to answer a call. His foot was caught on the asc ending car and he was carried with it from the third floor to the eighth floor. He sustained multiple fractures, a dislocated right leg and pelvis, severe abras ions on both legs, and a bruised chest.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 67 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- HOISTING APPARATUS (24)
- Occupation
- Not specified mechanics and repairers (549)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- CATCH POINT/PUNCTURE ACTION (2)
- 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.