Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 147505.015 - Employee dies while installing hinges in fall from balcony

Accident Summary Nr: 147505.015 -- Report ID: 0854910 -- Event Date: 06/30/2022
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1605629.015	07/01/2022		238350	Supreme Finishing

Abstract: At 4:50 a.m. on June 30, 2022, an employee was exchanging factory installed hinges with a different color hinge on apartment balcony doors. The balcony doors are less than 8 feet from the edge of each balcony. Some of the balconies did not offer workers protection from falls. The distance from next lowest level to the balconies edges were between 10-feet 8 7/8 inches and 42-feet 8 1/2 inches. The employee fell to hardened concrete below and died. The employee either fell from a balcony or committed suicide. The reason suicide is suspected is not included in the narrative.

Keywords: Balcony, Carpenter, Concrete, Door, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Fracture, Guardrail, Inexperience, Installing, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lack of Work Procedures, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, PPE, PPE Hazard Assessment, Pavement, Residential Construction, Suicide, Unprotected

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Multi-family dwelling		New project or new addition			5		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1605629.015	25	M	Fatality		Carpenters	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Installing windows and doors, glazing Fatality Cause:

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