Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 14289631 - Employee killed in fall down air shaft

Accident Summary Nr: 14289631 -- Report ID: 0355111 -- Event Date: 08/18/1988
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
105709604	08/18/1988	1791	0	American Rigging & Millwright Services, Inc.
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
105709596	08/18/1988	1542	0	R. E. Lee & Sons Inc.
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
105709604	08/18/1988	1791	0	American Rigging & Millwright Services, Inc.

Abstract: Employee #1 was on a temporary work platform, waiting for Employee #2 to cut loose a piece of 4 in. Schedule 40 steel pipe and to lower it to him for removal from an air shaft. Without realizing it, Employee #2 cut loose the only remaining attachment, causing the pipe to fall and strike the work platform. The platform dislodged and fell down the shaft. As Employee #1 was exiting the shaft, he stood on a walkboard that had also been partially dislodged. Both he and the board fell 121 ft down the shaft to a concrete floor. Employee #1 was killed instantly upon impact. Employee #2 was injured but he did not require hospitalization.

Keywords: UNSECURED, WORK RULES, AIR SHAFT, INATTENTION, WALK PLATFORM, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, STRUCK BY, FALLING OBJECT

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	105709604	Fatality	Fracture	Occupation not reported
2	105709596			Occupation Not Listed
3	105709604	Non Hospitalized injury	Bruise/Contus/Abras	Occupation not reported

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