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Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 132994.015 - Employee Injures Back In Fall When Stair Landing Collapses

**Accident: 132994.015 -- Report ID: 0950633 -- Event Date: 01/09/2021**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1513213.015	01/13/2021		Premier Wall Systems, Inc.

At 11:45 a.m. on January 9, 2021, Employee #1, employed by a drywall contractor, was unloading drywall mud from a building's fourth floor window onto a stair la nding. The employee stacked approximately 2,000 pounds of drywall mud onto the landing, an excessive load which caused the stairwell to collapse. The employee fell with the structure. He was transported to the hospital and admitted for t reatment of bruising and vertebral damage to his back.

Keywords: back, blunt force trauma, contusion, drywall, fall, fall protection, falling object, loading, overloaded, stair, stair landing, structural collapse, vertebra, work surface

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Other building		New project or new addition			4

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1513213.015	30	M	Hospitalized injury		Drywall installers	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Exterior carpentry FatCause:

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