Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 143376.015 - Employee fractures ankle and wrist in fall off unguarded cat

Accident Summary Nr: 143376.015 -- Report ID: 0751910 -- Event Date: 01/14/2022
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1573848.015	01/21/2022		561621	Securitas Electronic Security

Abstract: At 1:30 p.m. on January 14, 2022, an employee was looking for a fire control panel in the upper level of a grocery store. The employee entered a mechanical room area with very little lighting and accessed a catwalk with no guardrails installed. As the employee was walking and looking for the panel, he walked off the end of the catwalk, and fell through the ceiling to the concrete floor below. The employee broke his ankle and wrist and required hospitalization.

Keywords: Ankle, Arm, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Broken Bone, Catwalk, Concrete Floor, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Fracture, Grocery Store, Guardrail, Inexperience, Leg, Lighting, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Multi-employer Worksite, Multiemployer, Poor Visibility, Walking Surface, Work Surface, Wrist

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1573848.015	44	M	Hospitalized injury		Sales occupations, other business services

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