OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221566185

IL DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS - EAST MOLINE CORRECTIONAL CENTER

EAST MOLINE, IL— 2023-05-23T00:00:00

Event: Aerial Lift, Aerial Truck, Arm, Back, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Boom, Bucket, CPR, Chest, Correction officer, Cutting, Ejected, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Falling Object, Fracture, Hoisting Mechanism, Inexperience, Laceration, Lack of Work Procedures, Rib, Roll-Over, Slope, Sloping, Torso, Training, Tree, Tree Limb, Unstable Surface
NAICS: 922140
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346724321
Employer profile: IL DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS - EAST MOLINE CORRECTIONAL CENTER
Summary number: 221566185
Report ID: 0551701
Project type: C
Construction end-use: H

Event description

Employee dies from injuries after being ejected from lift

Investigation abstract

At 1:00 p.m. on May 23, 2023, an employee working as a corrections officer for a employee from the bucket and onto the ground. The employee may have also been struck in the chest and torso by the left basket railing as well. The employee was unconscious after the fall. Coworkers provided CPR until first responders arrived and transported the employee to the hospital. The employee died from fractured ribs and arms and blunt trauma to the chest. state correctional facility was cutting the branches and trunk of two trees. The employee was working from inside the basket of a 2007 Genie Model S-40 Self-Propelled Telescoping Aerial Lift. The lift was resting on a sloped and grassy area. The boom was extended approximately 40 feet into the air. The employee was working without fall protection. The employee adjusted the lift to continue cutting down the tree branches by adjusting the bucket's height and moving the lift side to side. While doing so, the lift's tires closest to trees began to lift off the ground. The lift tilted and rolled over ejecting the

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 48 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
424

Fall distance
40

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