Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 117574.015 - Employee incurs multiple injuries in fall while loading trai

Accident Summary Nr: 117574.015 -- Report ID: 0950621 -- Event Date: 06/11/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1412358.015	07/01/2019		561730	Pacific Parks Landscaping, Inc.

Abstract: At 3:05 pm. on June 11, 2019, an employee was working at a residential construction site as a laborer for a landscaping company (subcontractor) loading tools into a rented Marksman trailer attached to a work truck. It was the end of the work day and a coworker (foreman) drove the truck away without checking the trailer first. The trailer ramps were not secured with the pin and the employee fell approximately 13 feet off the trailer to the blacktop when the coworker drove the truck around a corner. In addition to striking the pavement, the employee was also struck in the head by the trailer. The employee incurred a swollen brain, skull fracture, broken ribs, back abrasions and a swollen eye and was hospitalized.

Keywords: Abrasion, Asphalt, Back, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Brain, Burn, Communication, Construction, Contusion, Driver, Eye, Fall, Falling Object, Fracture, Inattention, Injury Illness Prevention Program, Landscaping, Loading, Loading Ramp, Locking Pins, Motor Vehicle, Pin, Ramp, Residential Construction, Rib, Skull, Struck Against, Struck By, Trailer, Training, Truck, Unsecured

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition			0	0

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1412358.015	38	M	Hospitalized injury		Laborers, except construction	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Landscaping Fatality Cause:

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