Inspection Detail

Inspection: 125656579 - Ca, Dept. Of Corrections, Deuel Vocational Inst.

Inspection Information - Office: American Canyon District Office

Investigation Summary

At approximately 1:15 p.m. on December 23, 1996, Employee #1, an inmate at Deuel Vocational Institution in California, was working with a supervisor to change an overhead light using a personnel lift. The supervisor had gone approximately 20 ft away to make a phone call to shut off the electricity. Employee #1 was hammering out a locking pin on the support arm that kept the personnel lift horizontal during transit when the lift fell on him. He sustained a broken leg and hip. Employee #1 should have raised the lift and taken the load off the pin instead of hammering it.

Keywords: FRACTURE, WORK RULES, LOCKING PINS, STRUCK BY, HIP, AERIAL LIFT, LEG