OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14488175

BATTLE & VERZENI CONSTRUCTION CORP

NEW YORK, NY— 1984-11-17T00:00:00

Event: WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, HOIST, RIDING ON EQUIPMENT, CAUGHT BETWEEN, SHAFT, FALL, FALL PROTECTION
NAICS: 000000
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #1080878
Employer profile: BATTLE & VERZENI CONSTRUCTION CORP
Summary number: 14488175
Report ID: 215000

Event description

Employee killed in fall down hoist shaft

Investigation abstract

Employee #1, a foreman, was riding on the car of a material hoist with two loads of brick on wooden pallets. The car was between the sixth and seventh floors wh en the handle of the pallet jack became caught between the car platform and the frame of the hoist. Employee #1 jumped from the hoist to the platform and then f ell six floors down the hoist shaft. He was killed.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 44 M

Nature of injury
12

Part of body
13

Event type
5

Source
24

Occupation code
553

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
18

Hazardous substance
8880

Task assigned
1

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