Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 129982.015 - Employee sustains multiple injuries in fall from scaffold

Accident Summary Nr: 129982.015 -- Report ID: 1050210 -- Event Date: 09/12/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1494450.015	09/17/2020		713990	Baranof Fishing Excursions

Abstract: At 7:00 a.m. on September 12, 2020, an employee working as a laborer for a fishing excursions service was putting together a scaffold. The employee was working with a coworker putting decking on the second level of a scaffold. The employee was standing with the coworker on the first level of the scaffold while constructing the second level. The employee fell off the scaffold and landed on a wooden dock. The employee fractured his skull in two places, ruptured his left ear drum, fractured his left shoulder and fractured his back in two places and was hospitalized.

Keywords: Back, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Carpenter, Competent Person, Construction, Decking, Dock, Ear, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Fracture, Head, Inexperience, Installing, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Rupture, Scaffold, Shoulder, Skull, Walking Surface, Wood, Work Surface

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition			2

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1494450.015	37	M	Hospitalized injury		Laborers, except construction	Distance of Fall: 6 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 6 feet Cause: Exterior carpentry Fatality Cause:

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