Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 139712.015 - Employee fractures leg in fall stepping onto stepladder

Accident Summary Nr: 139712.015 -- Report ID: 0950611 -- Event Date: 04/12/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1527589.015	04/20/2021		561311	Peopleready, Inc.

Abstract: At 2:00 p.m. on April 12, 2021, an employee was working as a carpenter for a temporary staffing company that specialized in providing personnel in the skilled trades. The employer is primarily engaged in providing workers for construction and related employers. The secondary employer is a manufacturer and installer of cabinets (cabinet supplier) which was subcontractor at the work site. The employee had been working from a 36-inch-tall scaffold patching holes in a wall when he stepped onto a 6-foot Werner Stepladder. The employee mis-stepped onto the ladder causing it to move and fell to the ground with is right foot entangled in the ladder. The employee fractured his right tibia and was hospitalized for three days.

Keywords: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Building, Carpenter, Commercial Building, Construction, Descending Ladder, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Fracture, Installing, Laceration, Ladder, Leg, Multi-employer Worksite, Multiemployer, Scaffold, Staffing Agency, Stepladder, Temporary, Temporary Employment Agency, Temporary Worker, Tibia, Unsecured

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		Alteration or rehabilitation				3

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1527589.015	61	M	Hospitalized injury		Carpenters	Distance of Fall: 3 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 3 feet Cause: Interior carpentry Fatality Cause:

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