Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 112362.015 - Employee incurs multiple injuries in fall from vertical mast

Accident Summary Nr: 112362.015 -- Report ID: 0352450 -- Event Date: 12/27/2018
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1358744.015	11/07/2018		238220	Vsc Fire & Security, Inc.

Abstract: At 10:39 a.m. on December 27, 2018, an employee was working from a motorized vertical mast lift (JLG Model #20MVL) to install and adjust escutcheon plates in a racquetball court. A coworker asked for assistance with an escutcheon plate that they were having trouble with adjusting. After looking at the problem, the employee began to lower the basket to retrieve a tool. As the basket descended, it detached from the mast and the employee and basket fell approximately ten feet. The employee was hospitalized for fractures to seven ribs, four vertebra, both scapula, and glenoid. There was also a bulging disc in the employee's back and small lacerations and contusions to the back of the head.

Keywords: Contusion, Descending, Elevated Work Platform, Fall, Fire Ext System, Head, Installing, Laceration, Rib, Shoulder, Vertebra

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1358744.015	44	M	Hospitalized injury		Construction trades, n.e.c.	Distance of Fall: 10 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 20 feet Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite Fatality Cause:

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