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Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 142978.015 - Employee Falls Through Ceiling, Receives Vertebra Fracture

**Accident: 142978.015 -- Report ID: 0317700 -- Event Date: 12/16/2021**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1573979.015	01/21/2022		Bei Electrical

At 2:00 p.m. on December 16, 2021, an employee worked to clean debris from an ac cess/ceiling area. While working, the employee fell approximately thirteen feet through an opening and fractured a lumbar vertebra. The employee was hospitalize d to treat the injury.

Keywords: ceiling, cleaning, fall, fracture, vertebra

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition				13

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Construction
1	1573979.015	20	M	Hospitalized injury		FallDist: 13 FallHt:13 Cause: Installing plumbing, lighting fixtures FatCause:

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