Accident Report Detail

Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 119192.015 - Employee Falls From A Ladder, Breaks Bones

**Accident: 119192.015 -- Report ID: 0552652 -- Event Date: 08/08/2019**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1424773.015	08/22/2019		Walters Gardens Inc

At 8:30 p.m. on August 8, 2019, an employee was troubleshooting a Visser waterin g boom. The employee did not activate the emergency stop, and when the fix was c onducted, the watering boom started to move, knocking the employee off the ladde r he was working on to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized to trea t a broken left wrist and a compression fracture to the L1 vertebrae.

Keywords: broken, broken bone, fall, fall from elevation, fracture, ladder, lockout, lockout/tagout, vertebra, wrist

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation
1	1424773.015	36	M	Hospitalized injury		Machinery maintenance occupations

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