Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201860236 - Employee Crushed on Top of an Elevator

Accident Summary Nr: 201860236 -- Report ID: 0452110 -- Event Date: 12/01/2010
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
314505876	12/01/2010	1796	238290	Schindler Elevator Corporation

Abstract: An employee had been working alone. He was found unresponsive in an elevator pit, caught between an elevator car and a fixed ladder. The elevators had not been properly deenergized or locked out. The employee died of injuries sustained in the accident.

Keywords: AMPUTATED, CRUSHED, ELEVATOR SHAFT

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Other building		Maintenance or repair		Under $50,000	4		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	314505876			Fatality	Amputation	Industrial machinery repairers	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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