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Accident: 170900310 - Employee Killed When Steel Stairway Collapses

**Accident: 170900310 -- Report ID: 0950641 -- Event Date: 02/11/1997**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
126096577	02/11/1997	1795	J. Jimenez And M. Jimenez Dba J&J Concrete Cutting

At 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 11, 1997, Employee #1 was using a torch to cut down a steel stairway in a cellar. The stairway was loaded with demolition debris and it collapsed on top of him. Employee #1 was crushed and killed. Apparently, the supports at the first floor at the upper end of the stairway had sometime earlier been torch-cut by another contractor.

Keywords: stair, demolition, collapse, unsecured, overloaded, construction, caught between, struck by, housekeeping, cutting and burning

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		Alteration or rehabilitation		$500,000 to $1,000,000	2	30	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	126096577			Fatality	Other	Construction laborers	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Erecting structural steel FatCause: Collapse of structure

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