Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 120834.015 - Employee falls with elevated load and is crushed

Accident Summary Nr: 120834.015 -- Report ID: 0524700 -- Event Date: 08/02/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1430981.015	08/05/2019		236220	Henry Graber Sr.

Abstract: At 8:00 a.m. on August 2, 2019, Employee #1, employed by a construction company, was unloading caging materials on the fourth floor of a new commercial building, a multiemployer construction project. As he lifted a boxed pallet of materials from the forks of an aerial lift to a receiving platform, the load shifted. Both Employee #1 and the load fell to the concrete surface, a fall height of 32 feet. The pallet fell on top of Employee #1 and crushed his head, chest, and abdomen. Employee #1 was killed.

Keywords: Abdomen, Aerial Lift, Chest, Concrete, Construction, Crushed, Elevated Work Platform, Fall, Fall Protection, Falling Object, Head, Material Handling, Pallet, Unstable Load

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition			4	32	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1430981.015	23	M	Fatality		Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: 32 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 32 feet Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite Fatality Cause:

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