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Accident: 200960896 - Employee Injured When Struck By Falling Concrete Block Wall
| Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 127380558 | 04/09/1997 | 1741 | Henry J. Knott Masonry, Inc. |
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
| End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial building | New project or new addition | $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 | 1 | 27 | |||
| Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 127380558 | Hospitalized injury | Fracture | Brickmasons and stonemasons apprentices | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Exterior masonry FatCause: Collapse of structure |