Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 112514.015 - Employee incurs head trauma when scaffold collapses

Accident Summary Nr: 112514.015 -- Report ID: 0213400 -- Event Date: 01/12/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1370866.015	01/12/2019		238170	Pablo Construction Llc

Abstract: At 10:30 a.m. on January 12, 2019, Employee #1, employed by a siding contractor, was installing a Tyvek building wrap at a four-story multifamily residential building. The scaffold platform on which he was working collapsed. Employee #1 fell, a fall height of 39 feet, and struck the concrete slab floor. The employee was wearing fall protection, but it was not being worn or used properly and failed to prevent the employee's free fall. Emergency services transported the employee to the hospital. He was admitted and treated for multiple injuries including blunt force traumatic injury to his head.

Keywords: Blunt force trauma, Concrete Slab, Elevated Work Platform, Equipment Failure, Fall, Fall Protection, Head, Installing, Residential Construction, Scaffold Collapse, Siding, Untrained, Work Surface

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Multi-family dwelling		New project or new addition			4	39

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1370866.015	30	M	Hospitalized injury		Carpenters	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Exterior carpentry Fatality Cause:

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