Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200775575 - Employee Is Injured in Fall from Aerial Bucket

Accident Summary Nr: 200775575 -- Report ID: 0134000 -- Event Date: 02/24/2009
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
312908908	02/25/2009	8999	541990	R & S Landscaping, Inc.

Abstract: On February 24, 2009, an employee was assigned to trim limbs from overhanging residential projects complex. While trimming branches, he fell from a boom truck bucket approximately thirty two feet hitting the structural roof and a room air-conditioning unit projecting from a window and then landing on the ground. The employee sustained a fractured right femur, bloody nose and lacerations to the mouth. The employee was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was hospitalized and underwent surgery to insert pin and plate to stabilize the fracture.

Keywords: FRACTURE, MOUTH, NOSE, LACERATION, FALL, STRUCK BY, LEG

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	312908908			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Occupation not reported

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