Incident date: 2017-03-03
NAICS industry code: 561790

An employee was performing a "rope shortening" operation on a freight elevator. One of the six suspension wire cables broke and a section of the wire cable fell onto the employee on top of the elevator car. The employee was hospitalized for a bone fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Wire, cables-nonelectrical
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate