Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200963163 - Employee injured in fall from deck of roof

Accident Summary Nr: 200963163 -- Report ID: 0352440 -- Event Date: 07/16/1999
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
302798533	07/16/1999	1791	0	Acm Erectors Inc

Abstract: Employee #1, the site foreman, was assisting a coworker who was installing steel decking on the roof of a stairwell on the top deck of a multi-level parking garage at a shopping mall. He was wearing a full body harness and wire rope lanyard to tie off to the beams as he worked. After he tied off, Employee #1 found that his lanyard was tangled, so he detached it to straighten it out. Before he could hook back up, he fell 38 ft from the deck to the ground. Employee #1 suffered fractures to both wrists, a fractured right elbow, fractured bones in his left cheek, multiple rib fractures, a shredded spleen, and collapsed lungs. Two months after the accident, he had no memory of why or how he fell.

Keywords: FRACTURE, LUNG, ROOF DECKING, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, ENTANGLED, TIE-OFF

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Other building		New project or new addition		$500,000 to $1,000,000	3	38

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	302798533			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Structural metal workers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 38 feet Cause: Roofing Fatality Cause: Fall from roof

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