Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200960326 - Employee killed when elevator car collapses

Accident Summary Nr: 200960326 -- Report ID: 0352440 -- Event Date: 09/24/1996
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
127378404	09/24/1996	1796	0	Fujitec America Inc

Abstract: Employee #1 and a coworker were altering the height of an elevator jack head to meet run-by codes. This involved cutting the supporting steel free from the jack cylinder with an oxygen-acetylene torch. Two wooden 4 in. by 4 in. poles were then placed below the elevator car that was attached to the cylinder plunger. Between 12 in. and 15 in. of space was left between the bottom of the car and the poles to allow the weight of the car to move the cylinder farther into the hole. While cutting the supporting steel, the car unexpectedly collapsed. Employee #1, the foreman, was killed and his coworker, a subcontractor, sustained serious injuries (see ID #200960334). Two other elevator cylinders had been lowered by Employee #1 on the same day prior to the accident.

Keywords: ACETYLENE TORCH, UNSECURED, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, STRUCK BY, ELEVATOR, FALLING OBJECT

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Other building		New project or new addition		$20,000,000 and over	10		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	127378404			Fatality	Other	Construction trades, n.e.c.	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Elevator, escalator installation Fatality Cause: Elevator (struck by elevator or counter-weights)

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