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Accident Summary Nr: 123356.015 - Employee injures leg and hip in step through metal studs int

Accident Summary Nr: 123356.015 -- Report ID: 0950615 -- Event Date: 01/09/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1457442.015	01/22/2020		238220	Iron Mechanical Inc.

Abstract: At 8:00 a.m. on January 9, 2020, an employee was tasked to look for a route to install plumbing lines for a bathroom on the second floor. The area itself was a room with a hallway in between, leading to another open area, and to one side was a frame wall with no drywall up, and the other side was a framed elevator shaft with no drywall up and no railings on part of the wall. The lighting itself was very poor, only about 0.02-0.06 fc. The employee was talking to a coworker while looking up at the ceiling and walking backwards and, in the process, he walked through the opening in the wall to the elevator shaft and fell to the ground, approximately 5 feet, hitting beams that were inside the shaft on the way down. The employee sustained serious injuries to his leg and hip and was hospitalized.

Keywords: Construction, Elevator Shaft, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Guardrail, Handrail, Hip, Leg, Lighting, Plumbing, Walking Backward

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		Alteration or rehabilitation				5

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1457442.015	47	M	Hospitalized injury		Supervisors; plumbers, pipefitters & steamfitters	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Installing plumbing, lighting fixtures Fatality Cause:

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