Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202339388 - Employee Is Injured in Fall from Casket Lift

Accident Summary Nr: 202339388 -- Report ID: 0352430 -- Event Date: 09/16/2002
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
305572927	09/19/2002	7261	0	Andrew G. Gee Funeral Home, P.A.

Abstract: On September 16,2002, Employee #1, a Senior Vice President of a funeral services company, had finished preparing a body and was leaving the basement by riding the casket lift, a vertical reciprocating conveyor, to the viewing room level. He was on the conveyor when the platform of the unit fell. Employee #1 and the platform fell approximately 8 ft to the basement floor. Employee #1 sustained a fractured ankle, numerous lacerations and abrasions, and possible neck and back injuries. It is speculated that the the platform may have tipped because it was unbalanced.

Keywords: PLATFORM, FRACTURE, WORK RULES, BACK, LACERATION, ABRASION, CONVEYOR, FALL, ANKLE, WARNING SIGN

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	305572927			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Funeral directors

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