Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170064372 - Employee injured by descending elevator

Accident Summary Nr: 170064372 -- Report ID: 0950411 -- Event Date: 02/04/1993
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
115577322	02/04/1993	2086	0	Pepsi-Cola Metropolitan Bottling Company, Inc.

Abstract: At approximately 1:30 a.m. on February 4, 1993, Employee #1, a production employee for Pepsi-Cola Company, was working on a de-palletizer. With an elevator in the raised position, he entered the elevator shaft to retrieve two-litre bottles that had fallen. The elevator descended on him, knocking him to the conveyor support shafts and pinning him to the shafts at the back of the neck. Coworkers freed Employee #1, who had lost consciousness. He was transported by paramedics to the hospital.

Keywords: UNCONSCIOUSNESS, ASPHYXIATED, PINNED, WORK RULES, LOCKOUT, CAUGHT BETWEEN, NECK, STRUCK BY, ELEVATOR, ELEVATOR SHAFT

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	115577322			Hospitalized injury	Asphyxia	Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators

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