Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170067532 - Employee hospitalized after falling from false car

Accident Summary Nr: 170067532 -- Report ID: 0352430 -- Event Date: 09/02/1992
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
119533057	09/02/1992	1796	0	Fujitec America Inc

Abstract: Employee #1 was on the 14th floor changing the cables on a false car to continue the rails up elevator shaft #4. He disconnected the cables holding the car from the beam, then disconnected his safety belt and lanyard and started to walk off the car to go to the floor below to attach a safety cable to the car. The safeties did not hold, and the car fell before Employee #1 could alight. He sustained a head injury, laceration, a broken nose, and a puncture wound in the right buttock. Employee #1 has been erecting elevators for eight years and changed more than 50 false car cables in this same manner without incident.

Keywords: FRACTURE, HEAD, UNSECURED, BUTTOCKS, CONSTRUCTION, LACERATION, FALL, ELEVATOR, FALLING OBJECT, PUNCTURE

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	119533057			Hospitalized injury	Cut/Laceration	Elevator installers and repairers

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