Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 119723.015 - Employee fractures skull in fall after scaffold tips over

Accident Summary Nr: 119723.015 -- Report ID: 0552651 -- Event Date: 07/08/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1415176.015	07/23/2019		238130	Kaycee Construction Company

Abstract: At 2:15 p.m. on July 8, 2019, an employee working as a carpenter for a framing contractor was working on a commercial project installing joist hangers. The Baker scaffolding that the employee was standing on slipped into a hole and fell over. The employee fractured his skull and injured his elbow and back from impact with the ground and was hospitalized.

Keywords: Back, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Carpenter, Elbow, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Fracture, Head, Installing, Scaffold, Scaffold Collapse, Skull, Unsecured, Unstable Position, Unstable Soil, Unstable Surface, Work Surface

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition			12

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1415176.015	25	M	Hospitalized injury		Carpenters	Distance of Fall: 4 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 4 feet Cause: Interior carpentry Fatality Cause:

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