Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 126287.015 - Employee sustains concussion and fractures in fall from roof

Accident Summary Nr: 126287.015 -- Report ID: 0950643 -- Event Date: 12/12/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1458845.015	01/28/2020		238160	Honeycutt Tear Off

Abstract: At 9:40 a.m. on December 12, 2019, an employee working as a construction laborer for a roofing contractor was working at a hospital maintenance building. The employee was working on a crew removing roofing material and debris from the building. The crew was loading roofing debris onto a truck using a chute. The truck left with the chute to head to the landfill. The crew got another truck and set it up with a planked ramp to fill the truck. The employee was loading the truck to the front using the ramp for about an hour. The planked runway was approximately 24 inches wide, which is smaller than the required 40 inches. The employee fell off the ramp toward the edge of the roof and then fell 10 feet near the end of the truck. The employee fractured his scalp, mastoid process, ribs, scapular bone and lumbar and was hospitalized.

Keywords: Back, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Building, Commercial Building, Concussion, Construction, Construction vehicle, Debris, Dump Truck, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Fracture, Head, Laborer, Loading, Lumbar Fracture, Lumbar Injury, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Ramp, Roof, Shoulder, Shoulder Bone, Skull, Spine, Walking On Plank, Walking Surface

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		Alteration or rehabilitation			1

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1458845.015	66	M	Hospitalized injury		Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Roofing Fatality Cause:

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