Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 99121.015 - Employee falls down elevator shaft and is killed

Accident Summary Nr: 99121.015 -- Report ID: 0352460 -- Event Date: 08/03/2017
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1252174.015	08/03/2017		238120	Williams Steel Erection Company Inc.

Abstract: At 1:15 p.m. on August 3, 2017, an employee was erecting steel framing for a computer science center. The employee was receiving an elevator tube that was being hoisted by a lattice boom crane. The elevator tube was to be welded inside of the elevator shaft once it was set in place by the crane. As the elevator tube was lowered into the shaft to be welded in place by the employee, the employee fell approximately 84-feet from the fifth floor, through the elevator shaft to the first level concrete floor and received fatal injuries.

Keywords: Elevator Shaft, Fall, Fall Protection, Steel Erection

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition					X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1252174.015	32	M	Fatality		Structural metal workers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Erecting structural steel Fatality Cause:

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