Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170632079 - Employee injured in fall from scaffold

Accident Summary Nr: 170632079 -- Report ID: 0950644 -- Event Date: 07/28/1996
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
119767200	07/06/1996	1795	0	American Demolition Inc.

Abstract: At 2:40 p.m. on July 28, 1996, Employee #1, of American Demolition Inc., Santa Ana, CA, was working from a scaffold platform in the vicinity of a demolished building. He was using a torch to cut a sprinkler pipe when the pipe fell and knocked him off the platform to the ground. Employee #1 suffered two broken arms and a head injury that required stitches. He misjudged the angle at which the pipe was going to fall.

Keywords: FRACTURE, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, PIPE, STRUCK BY, ELEVATED WORK PLAT, FALLING OBJECT, SCAFFOLD

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	119767200			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Helpers, extractive occupations

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