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Accident: 109638.015 - Employee Injures Head In Fall Through Stairway Opening

**Accident: 109638.015 -- Report ID: 0552651 -- Event Date: 08/15/2018**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1338903.015	08/16/2018		Middleton Builders Inc.

At 3:30 a.m. on August 15, 2018, Employee #1, a carpenter employed by a construc tion company, was working at a new two-story residential structure, a multiemplo yer construction project. He was cleaning up at the end of the workday when he fell through a stairway opening that was not properly guarded and struck his hea d on the concrete floor, a fall height of 14 feet. Emergency services transport ed the employee to the hospital, where he was admitted and treated for serious h ead injuries.

Keywords: brain, carpenter, cleaning, fall, fall protection, floor hole, floor opening, head, residential construction, stair, traumatic, unguarded

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition			2

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1338903.015	38	M	Hospitalized injury		Carpenters	FallDist: 14 FallHt:14 Cause: Interior carpentry FatCause:

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