Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 167232.015 - One employee is killed, another employee is injured in fall

Accident Summary Nr: 167232.015 -- Report ID: 0521700 -- Event Date: 06/06/2024
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1753337.015	06/06/2024		238120	New Horizon Steel, Llc
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1753585.015	06/07/2024		541330	Hi-Tech Stake-Out Inc.

Abstract: At approximately 11:41 a.m. on June 6, 2024, Employee #1 who was working as a technical engineer for an engineering contractor, was performing a survey and layout operations for installation of structural steel on core walls. Employee #2 was welding structural steel lugs to steel embeds in the core walls. During a wind gust of approximately 48 miles per hour (mph), the corner of an exterior single level temporary elevated working platform at the southwest corner of the south core separated and pulled away from the core wall. Both Employee #1 and Employee #2 fell between the platform and the core wall as a result. Both employees fell approximately 145 feet to the ground below. Employee #1 died instantly and Employee #2, a journeyman ironworker, was hospitalized with life threatening injuries.

Keywords: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Commercial Building, Construction, Elevated, Elevated Work Plat, Elevated Work Platform, Engineering Technician, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Ground, High Wind, Inexperience, Iron Worker, Journeyman, Multi-employer Worksite, Multiemployer, Scaffold, Shear, Sheared, Steel, Structural Collapse, Surveyor, Technician, Wall, Weather, Welding

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition			10		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1753337.015	36	M	Hospitalized injury		Reinforcing Iron & Rebar Worker	Distance of Fall: 145 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 145 feet Cause: Erecting structural steel Fatality Cause:
2	1753585.015	27	M	Fatality		Surveyor	Distance of Fall: 145 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 145 feet Cause: Erecting structural steel Fatality Cause:

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