Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 132075.015 - Employee incurs multiple fractures in fall from ladder

Accident Summary Nr: 132075.015 -- Report ID: 0950633 -- Event Date: 07/25/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1478953.015	06/15/2020		111339	David B. Knight

Abstract: At 11:06 a.m. on July 25 2019, an employee had been working at an avocado farm picking avocados from a tree. The employee was standing on a ladder cutting a branch with a manual saw. The branch fell and struck the employee knocking him to the ground. The employee fractured his right arm, neck, and lower back and was hospitalized.

Keywords: Agriculture, Arm, Back, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Cutting, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Falling Object, Farm, Flying Object, Fracture, Hand Tool, Ladder, Neck, Saw, Tree Limb

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1478953.015	54	M	Hospitalized injury

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