Accident Report Detail

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Accident: 170865943 - Employee Crushed By Falling Concrete Wall

**Accident: 170865943 -- Report ID: 0950622 -- Event Date: 06/17/2003**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
125817338	06/17/2003	1795	Soil Enterprises, Inc.,

An employee was working for a demolition contractor at one of two jobsites in the same development. An excavator operator was cleaning a concrete slab and the employee was sweeping the floor of the former bank vault. The remaining wall of the vault fell inward and crushed the employee. He was pronounced dead by the responding Emergency Response Service.

Keywords: concrete slab, excavation, asphyxiated, construction, crushed, struck by, falling object

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Commercial building		Demolition		$50,000 to $250,000	1		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	125817338			Fatality	Asphyxia	Construction laborers	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Site clearing and grubbing FatCause: Collapse of structure

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