Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201857158 - Employee Falls Down Elevator Shaft and Is Injured

Accident Summary Nr: 201857158 -- Report ID: 0452110 -- Event Date: 04/12/2007
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
310656152	04/13/2007	2015	311615	Pilgrim'S Pride Corporation

Abstract: At approximately 12:05 p.m. on April 12, 2007, Employee #1 was helping a maintenance employee work on a freight elevator. Employee #1's feet slipped on the concrete floor surface and he fell. Employee #1 fell down the elevator shaft approximately 20 ft from the second floor level to the first floor level. One of the cables for the elevator door had jumped off of its' pulley, and Employee #1 was helping by trying lift up the horizontal bi-folding doors to obtain some slack in the cable to allow for placing it back onto the pulley. The original narrative gave no details of Employee #1's injuries but he was hospitalized.

Keywords: MAINTENANCE, REPAIR, WIRE ROPE, SLIP, FALL, PULLEY, ELEVATOR, ELEVATOR SHAFT

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	310656152			Hospitalized injury	Other	Laborers, except construction

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