Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 130574.015 - Employee incurs multiple injuries after falling off scaffold

Accident Summary Nr: 130574.015 -- Report ID: 0953220 -- Event Date: 08/24/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1491644.015	08/25/2020		236220	Dci Construction Inc.

Abstract: At 2:00 p.m. on August 24, 2020, Employee #1 was inside the scaffold drilling the plywood panels into the insulated forming blocks of the southeast corner wall. Employee #1 was standing inside the 9-foot scaffold, fainted, and fell. Employee #1 sustained the following injuries: scalp laceration, scalp hematoma, closed fracture of multiple ribs of both sides, syncope and T10 vertebral fracture. Employee #1 was hospitalized. Employee #1 was injured due to exposure to direct sunlight and a high temperature of 108 degrees Fahrenheit, and the lack of a break.

Keywords: Break, Drilling, Fainted, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Forming, Fracture, Heat, Heat Exhaustion, Heat Injury Prevention Program, Heat index, Heat-related illness , Laceration, Plywood, Rib, Scaffold, Scalp, Subdural Hematoma, Vertebra, Wall

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition			0

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1491644.015	40	M	Hospitalized injury		Carpenters	Distance of Fall: 9 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 9 feet Cause: Forming Fatality Cause:

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