UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Abstract: At 9:15 a.m. on June 17, 2022, an employee who worked for an HVAC contractor was utilizing a Trimble Unit to mark the locations of plumbing components such as P EX chairs and sleeves. The employee had his back turned when he was struck by a load of 4-foot by 8-ffot decking sheets. The load of decking sheets was being of floaded on the 31st floor by a crane operator. The employee was pushed from the 28th floor approximately 30-feet down a stairwell shaft that was under construct ion. The employee struck his head on the steps and his legs on the wooden stair railing on the outside perimeter of the stairs. The employee broke his legs on t he top and middle rail of the 28th floor guardrail system due to the fall. In ad dition, multiple decking sheets fell down the unfinished stairwell shaft hitting multiple shoring posts and destroying the existing guardrail systems from the 3 1st to the 28th floor. Overall, the employee encurred head and lead injuries and whole body impact from being struck-by the load and the fall and was killed.