Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170129720 - Employee injured in fall from bin sorter

Accident Summary Nr: 170129720 -- Report ID: 1054113 -- Event Date: 10/09/1992
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
115704975	10/09/1992	2421	0	Avison Lumber Company

Abstract: At approximately 1:00 p.m. on October 8, 1992, the bin sorter in mill #5 plugged up. The sorter crew had been trying to free the lumber hangup in bin #2. Employee #1 had been working on the computer of the sorter when he noticed the hangup from the office and went out to help. He was standing on the lumber in bin #1, moving the tangled boards in bin #2, when the lumber in bin #2 came loose and fell to the bottom. Employee #1 was holding a piece of falling lumber that pulled him off the lumber in bin #1, and he fell 17 1/2 ft to the lower floor. He landed headfirst, sustaining a broken vertebra and rib and a punctured lung. His hard hat probably saved his life.

Keywords: FRACTURE, LUNG, CLEANING, JAMMED, LUMBER, RIB, FALL, VERTEBRA, PUNCTURE

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	115704975			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Electronic repairers, communica. & indus. equip.

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