Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200641967 - Employee died after falling 45 feet from a ladder

Accident Summary Nr: 200641967 -- Report ID: 0627700 -- Event Date: 06/23/2001
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
303644074	06/25/2001	1791	0	Tate Metalworks, Inc.

Abstract: At approximately 3:00 p.m. on June 23, 2001, Employee #1 of Tate Metalworks, Inc., working with two other coworkers, finished the week's welding work inside a new power plant exhaust stack. The crew descended from atop scaffolding about 100 feet high. About halfway down Employee # 1 went to retrieve some personal items, and elected to use a secondary 75- foot attached fixed ladder. While accessing, or on the ladder, the employee fell about 45 feet to the second level within the exhaust stack, suffered a concussion and died.

Keywords: EXHAUST SYSTEM, LADDER, WELDER, FIXED LADDER, FALL, SCAFFOLD

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Powerplant		New project or new addition		$20,000,000 and over		100	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	303644074			Fatality	Concussion	Occupation not reported	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 45 feet Cause: Steel Erection Of Solid Web-Welding/Burning/Grindi Fatality Cause: Fall from/with ladder

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