Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170107064 - Employee killed in fall with ladder

Accident Summary Nr: 170107064 -- Report ID: 0551800 -- Event Date: 12/04/1996
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
125332833	12/05/1996	1711	0	Rolf Coal And Fuel Corp

Abstract: Employee #1 was descending from an 18 ft high roof to get a proving cone needed to finish installing a chimney flu. When he put his weight on the ladder, the gutter failed at the seam, broke the pop rivets, and caused the ladder to fall. Employee #1 fell, head first, onto a concrete driveway and cracked his third and fourth cervical vertebrae. He was killed.

Keywords: FRACTURE, UNSECURED, WORK RULES, LADDER, CONSTRUCTION, DESCENDING, EQUIPMENT FAILURE, FALL, VERTEBRA

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		Maintenance or repair		Under $50,000	1		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	125332833			Fatality	Fracture	Heating, air conditioning, and refrig. mechanics	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 18 feet Cause: Steel Erection Of Solid Web-Connecting Fatality Cause: Fall from/with ladder

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