Fourteen-Year-Old Rental Equipment Worker Dies from Asphyxiation After Becoming Entangled in an Electric Chain Hoist - Colorado

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On July 21, 2001, a 14-year-old youth (the victim) working at a rental equipment company was fatally injured after becoming entangled in an electric chain hoist. The youth was employed to assist customers with loading and unloading rental equipment from customer vehicles and to prepare rental equipment for use by the next customer. After using the electric hoist to remove a vibratory plate tamper from a customer's truck, he was seen operating the chain hoist without a load. Several minutes later, when he had not returned to the office, his coworkers found him suspended by the chain around his neck. He was removed from the chain by his coworkers, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was initiated, and emergency medical services were called. He was transported by ambulance to the hospital in critical condition and died 6 days later.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Age Factors Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Age-factors Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 8 Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-practices Safety-programs Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Youth
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200113
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Construction
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  5 pages
• Contributor:
  Casini, Virgil J. ; Mardis, Anne ; Werntz, Carl
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024317
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-100548
• Citation:
  Morgantown, : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• Performing Organization:
  West Virginia University, School of Medicine, Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, Morgantown, West Virginia
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  53 - Real Estate and Rental and Leasing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1997/07/01
• End Date:
  2005/06/30
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5f8015016a6f161d7e1701d4a1b41b618f9a067934693951d95abd0204206e4417659fac4a3246bd1bb80c07fcb2d55ab0d9303cba43991e2ebef48a6e8afae8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167341/cdc_167341_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 33.01 KB ]