Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 14307383 - Employee Decapitated By Elevator Drive Machinery

Accident Summary Nr: 14307383 -- Report ID: 0214200 -- Event Date: 05/30/1985
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
18031526	06/03/1985	7538	0	George Lomano

Abstract: An employee was either inspecting or repairing the drive machinery for a freight elevator. He was struck by the drum on the machinery and decapitated. This event occurred in the machine room on the roof level of a four-story warehouse. The elevator had been inoperative the previous 6 days. The service and repair of this elevator was assigned to a private company whose representatives had inspected the machine room an hour before the accident.

Keywords: head, repair, lockout, struck by, elevator

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	18031526			Fatality	Other	Occupation not reported

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