Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 123441.015 - Employee incurs brain bleed in fall while descending ladder

Accident Summary Nr: 123441.015 -- Report ID: 0552652 -- Event Date: 12/23/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1456882.015	01/27/2020		326199	Forming Technologies

Abstract: At 8:00 p.m. on December 23, 2019, an employee working as a maintenance technician for a plastics manufacturer was using a portable ladder stand to access a tank to check the level. When descending the ladder stand, it tipped over to the right side. The employee fell to the concrete floor below. He fractured his eye socket and sustained a brain bleed, requiring hospitalization.

Keywords: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Brain, Brain Bleed, Concrete Floor, Concussion, Defect, Defective, Defective Equipment, Descending, Descending Ladder, Eye, Face, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fracture, Head, Inspecting, Laceration, Ladder, Maintenance, Material Handling, Plastic Mfg, Tank, Traumatic Brain Injury, Unsecured

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1456882.015	61	M	Hospitalized injury		Machinery maintenance occupations

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