Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 147685.015 - Employee is killed in fall from fifth story window

Accident Summary Nr: 147685.015 -- Report ID: 0316700 -- Event Date: 07/07/2022
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1606664.015	07/08/2022		238910	Interior Specialists, Inc.

Abstract: At 4:30 p.m. on July 7, 2022, an employee had just finished making 33.5 inch vertical cuts at each end of an 84-inch wide window sill. The employee was leaning out the window, trying to throw an airline to a coworker, when the ledge he had just cut fell, and he toppled out of the fifth story window, striking his head on the way down before landing in the debris below. The employee died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head.

Keywords: Airline, Blunt force trauma, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Head, Struck Against, Window

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Other building		Demolition			6		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1606664.015	42	M	Fatality		Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: 45 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 45 feet Cause: Demolition Fatality Cause:

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