Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 126685.015 - Employee is killed when struck by falling doors

Accident Summary Nr: 126685.015 -- Report ID: 0854910 -- Event Date: 05/05/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1474224.015	05/05/2020		236115	Gardner & Boswell Construction Inc

Abstract: At 10:30 a.m. on May 5, 2020, Employee #1 and two coworkers, employed by a construction company, were assisting the two employees of a delivery company to unload doors at a residential construction site. The doors were delivered in a box truck, stacked and secured by straps along the truck's wall. One of the delivery employees unstrapped a stack of doors and took one door into the house. The remaining stacked but now unstrapped doors began to tip away from the wall and fall. Employee #1 was struck in the head by six falling doors and pinned against a wall of the truck. He sustained traumatic head injury and was killed.

Keywords: Blunt force trauma, Door, Falling Object, Head, Loading, Material Handling, Pinned, Residential Construction, Struck By, Unsecured, Unstable Load

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Multi-family dwelling		New project or new addition				12	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1474224.015	27	F	Fatality		Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite Fatality Cause:

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