Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170841530 - Employee is injured when scaffolding collapses and he falls

Accident Summary Nr: 170841530 -- Report ID: 0950615 -- Event Date: 04/30/2001
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
125622167	05/02/2001	1751	0	Pacific Residential Framing

Abstract: Workers were landing strapped bundles of roof trusses onto a job built wooden material platform across a garage at top plate level. Employee #1 walked out onto 2 by 6 platform of material from his lift truck to release a lifting chain from the trusses when it collapsed. Employee #1 rode the scaffold down 10.25 ft landing on the slab floor with the trusses landing on top of him. His head whipped back and hit a slab, resulting in severe scalp laceration. Employee #1 was hospitalized.

Keywords: PLATFORM, COLLAPSE, PINNED, STRUCK AGAINST, SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE, CRUSHED, INDUSTRIAL TRUCK, LACERATION, STRUCK BY, SCAFFOLD

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000	2

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	125622167			Hospitalized injury	Cut/Laceration	Carpenters	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 10 feet Cause: Exterior carpentry Fatality Cause: Fall from/with scaffold

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