Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 002 Hazard: STRUCK BY

Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970: The employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which were free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees in that the employees were exposed to the hazard of being in the hoistway shaft when the Pilot Range elevator car was not in the landing zone and being struck by the elevator car when the car was entering the landing zone. A feasibleand useful method to correct this hazard, among other methods is to provide electrically-interlocked elevator hoistway doors or gates to prevent employees from having any part of their bodies in the hoistway except when the elevator car is stationary in the landing zone.