Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 142409.015 - Employee is killed in fall from cell tower

Accident Summary Nr: 142409.015 -- Report ID: 1055310 -- Event Date: 12/04/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1567510.015	12/05/2021		561110	Wa317966668 - Qualtek Wireless Llc

Abstract: At 1:30 p.m. on December 4, 2021, an employee was ascending a 150 foot cellular monopole tower structure to begin work when he slipped and fell from approximately 140 feet to the ground. The employee was wearing provided fall protection which he had clipped in to an engineered sternal cable grab system. Whether the employee was confirmed to have been properly tied off to the monopole's safety climb system or whether there was an equipment or system malfunction was not indicated in the narrative, but there may have been a malfunction in some part of the system.

Keywords: Ascending, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Climbing, Climbing Line, Communication Tower, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Fracture, Harness, Head, Lost Control, Malfunction, Safety Device, Slip, Tie-Off, Tower

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1567510.015	24	M	Fatality		Occupation not reported

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