Mechanic Dies As Result of Injuries Sustained In Fall With Personnel Lift

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• Personal Author:
  Brown, Margee ; Parker, David L.
• Corporate Authors:
  Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE) ; Minnesota. Department of Health
• Description:
  On the morning of the incident, the victim used a personnel lift in order to work on a suspended hoist monorail system. The lift was raised to an elevation of 17 feet 6 inches when it tipped over and fell to the ground. The victim was not wearing fall protection equipment. The machine was a single person lift on wheels with a hydraulic pump reservoir operated by a 12 volt battery. The scaffold did not have any type of a brake system, but outriggers were available to stabilize it. At the time of the incident, the outriggers were not being used to increase the stability of the lift. The victim may have pushed away from the hoist system causing the lift to tip back on its wheels and fall over. The victim was thrown to the floor and the lift fell on top of an electric cart which was parked on the floor. The victim was transported to a hospital where he died two days later. 1. employers should ensure that personnel lifts are properly erected before use 2. employers should ensure that workers are properly trained in the safe use of all equipment
  
  3. employers should encourage employees using any type of personnel lift to tie-off to a stationary support above the working height
  
  and 4. employers should design, develop, and implement a comprehensive safety program.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Injuries Injury-prevention Mechanics OSHA Region 5 Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Protective-measures Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-programs Scaffolds Training Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Falls ; Machine (All) ; Machine - General ; Falls - Construction - Scaffolds
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE96MN002
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027536
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2011-104518
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 96MN002, 1996 Apr ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1996
• Performing Organization:
  Minnesota Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  48-49 - Transportation and Warehousing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:95af43a7534db931daf8e42945ad4477b0b2d057083063d9dd13c7eb24dc3f5e1b6d9cdf48e6ecb83896c1f1a731650ff2a2f3171cf944a3449cefb727f59fc2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167149/cdc_167149_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 19.44 KB ]