Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 122647.015 - Employee sustains multiple blunt trauma in fall from roof

Accident Summary Nr: 122647.015 -- Report ID: 0523300 -- Event Date: 12/19/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1452135.015	12/19/2019		238130	Tony Vosberg

Abstract: At 8:00 a.m. on December 19, 2019, an employee was working as a carpenter for a framing contractor on a new residential project. The employee was working with a coworker (also a carpenter) on roof trusses installing sheathing. The crew lifted the sheathing to the work area utilizing an all-terrain forklift. The employee was reaching for the sheathing which was resting on the forks of the lift when he fell approximately 20 feet. He was not wearing any type of fall protection when he fell. Weather did not play a factor into the incident. The employee was transported by ambulance to the hospital, where he was admitted to treat head trauma, broken C4/C5 vertebra, broken eye sockets, a broken right wrist, and a collapsed left lung.

Keywords: Back, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Broken Bone, Carpenter, Collapsed lung, Construction, Eye, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Forklift, Fracture, Framing, Head, Installing, Lung, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Reaching, Residential Construction, Roof, Truss, Unstable Position, Vertebra, Work Surface, Wrist

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition			2	20

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1452135.015	38	M	Hospitalized injury		Carpenter	Distance of Fall: 20 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 20 feet Cause: Exterior carpentry Fatality Cause:

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