Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200960896 - Employee injured when struck by falling concrete block wall

Accident Summary Nr: 200960896 -- Report ID: 0352420 -- Event Date: 04/09/1997
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
127380558	04/09/1997	1741	0	Henry J. Knott Masonry, Inc.

Abstract: Employee #1 was inside a controlled access zone, installing bracing on a concrete block wall that his coworkers were erecting. He dropped his hard hat, and as he bent to retrieve it the block wall collapsed on top of him. Employee #1 sustained a fractured left ankle and a fracture of the C-1 vertebra. The bracing was being installed as specified in the blueprints, and at the correct height. At the time of the accident, a gust of wind that registered 27 mph was recorded by the general contractor's trailer, and this could have been a contributing factor in the wall's collapse.

Keywords: FRACTURE, HIGH WIND, INSTALLING, WALL, COLLAPSE, CONSTRUCTION, STRUCK BY, BRACING, VERTEBRA, ANKLE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000	1	27

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	127380558			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Brickmasons and stonemasons apprentices	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Exterior masonry Fatality Cause: Collapse of structure

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