Text For Citation: 02 Item/Group: 001 Hazard: CRUSHING

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 employees were exposed to: a) On or about March 27, 1990, and at times prior to, at the company facility of John Morrell & Company, located at 1400 Weber Avenue, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, employees were exposed to the hazard of a fall or being crushed by the moving freight elevator or other injuries because of the following conditions: 1) The north hoistway door on the sixth floor landing of #27 freight elevator did not lock in a closed position when the elevator car was not at the landing. 2) The freight elevator hoistway door on the lower lamb cooler landing was not provided with an interlocking device. Feasible and acceptable methods of correcting these hazards, among others, would be to: 1) Properly adjust the locking device to prevent the door from being opened when the freight elevator was not at the landing. 2) Provide a positive locking device on the hoistway door to prevent the door from being opened when the elevator is not at the landing.