Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200965887 - Employee injured in fall when scissor lift overturns

Accident Summary Nr: 200965887 -- Report ID: 0352440 -- Event Date: 03/15/2000
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
303337190	03/15/2000	1742	0	Frederick Ceilings Inc

Abstract: Employee #1 was on the approximately 18 ft high platform of a mobile scissor lift, installing wires for a suspended ceiling by looping them over the interior ceiling of the building. The floor surface was newly set concrete with twenty-five in. square openings located throughout the surface. Employee #1 was moving the scissor lift when one of its wheels went into a surface hole, causing the lift to overturn on its side. He rode down on the platform until it reached the floor. Employee #1 suffered a dislocated shoulder and facial lacerations, but did not require hospitalization.

Keywords: SHOULDER, UNGUARDED FL OPENING, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, DISLOCATED, FALL, FLOOR OPENING, ELEVATED WORK PLAT, AERIAL LIFT, OVERTURN

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	2	22

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	303337190			Non Hospitalized injury	Dislocation	Drywall installers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 25 feet Cause: Installing interior walls, ceilings, doors Fatality Cause: Fall from/with scaffold

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