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Accident: 202340865 - Employee Is Killed In Fall Through Elevator Shaft
Accident: 202340865 -- Report ID: 0215000 -- Event Date: 09/21/2005 | |||||||
| Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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| 309235810 | 09/22/2005 | 1522 | Wall Street Builders, Llc | ||||
| On September 21, 2005, Employee #1, a laborer, was working in an elevator shaft in an 8-story building undergoing conversion. The workers in the building were provided with a new elevator car which at the time of the accident consisted of only the platform and harness. Employee #1 was working from the elevator platform, demolishing concrete block for the installation of a steel beam. The platform was positioned at the seventh floor level between the landing and the hoist way door buck. Employee #1 fell from the elevator platform to the basement elevator pit and was killed. | |||||||
Keywords:
platform, construction, shaft, fall, fall protection, elevator
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| End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
| Multi-family dwelling | Alteration or rehabilitation | $5,000,000 to $20,000,000 | 8 | X | |||
| Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
| 1 | 309235810 | Fatality | Other | Construction laborers | FallDist: FallHt:68 Cause: Demolition FatCause: Fall through opening (other than roof) |
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