Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 134509.015 - Employee fractures neck when struck by falling concrete form

Accident Summary Nr: 134509.015 -- Report ID: 0552651 -- Event Date: 10/22/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1499138.015	10/27/2020		238110	Tradesmen International, Llc

Abstract: At 11:30 a.m. on October 22, 2020, an employee was working for a framing contractor. He was at a construction site where a new single family or duplex dwelling was being built or an addition was underway for an existing single family or duplex dwelling. It was a one-story building. The employee was signaling a coworker who was lowering a concrete form rack into place. When the coworker unhooked the crane from the rack, the rack fell on the employee. The employee's neck was fractured. The employee was hospitalized.

Keywords: Broken Bone, Concrete Form Work, Construction, Crane, Falling Object, Fracture, Framing, Mistake By Coworker, Neck, Residential Construction, Struck By, Unstable Load, Unstable Position

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition			1

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Construction
1	1499138.015	25	M	Hospitalized injury		Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Forming Fatality Cause:

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