Accident Report Detail
Accident: 200925410 - Employee Is Killed When Caught Under Elevator
Accident: 200925410 -- Report ID: 0355111 -- Event Date: 06/12/2008 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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312241961 | 06/12/2008 | 1721 | C J Paint Enterprise Corporation | ||||
At approximately 5:16 p.m. on June 12, 2008, Employee #1 was pressure washing the elevator shaft in a lift-span bridge tower from a fixed ladder adjacent to the elevator shaft. An employee on the lowest elevator landing pushed the button for the elevator to come down from the highest elevator landing. The elevator came down from above and caught Employee #1's right shoulder and pinned him in the unguarded elevator shaft. Employee #1 was killed. | |||||||
Keywords:
fracture, shoulder, pinned, caught between, elevator, unguarded, elevator shaft
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Bridge | Maintenance or repair | $50,000 to $250,000 | X | ||||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 312241961 | Fatality | Fracture | Painters, construction and maintenance | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Erecting structural steel FatCause: Elevator (struck by elevator or counter-weights) |