Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 105293.015 - Employee falls from scaffold and fractures hip and ribs

Accident Summary Nr: 105293.015 -- Report ID: 0522000 -- Event Date: 04/11/2018
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1313841.015	05/04/2018		238140	Ronald G. Lane, Sr. L.L.C.

Abstract: At 9:30 a.m. on April 11, 2018, Employee #1, employed by a masonry company, was working from a scaffold at a two-story residential structure. He was standing on the scaffold's work platform, a wood plank, when the plank broke at a knot in the wood. Employee #1 fell. Emergency services were called, and Employee #1 was transported to the hospital. He was admitted and treated for a fractured hip and two fractured ribs.

Keywords: Equipment Failure, Fall, Fall Protection, Fracture, Hip, Residential Construction, Rib, Scaffold, Structural Collapse, Work Platform

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		Alteration or rehabilitation			2	20

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1313841.015	59	M	Hospitalized injury		Carpenters	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Exterior carpentry Fatality Cause:

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