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Accident Summary Nr: 201066545 - Employee is injured in fall from platform used as footbridge

Accident Summary Nr: 201066545 -- Report ID: 0950632 -- Event Date: 07/16/2003
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
301118659	10/16/2003	1711	238220	Steve Wark Plumbing Inc

Abstract: At 8:00 a.m. on July 16, 2003, Employee #1 of Steve Wark Plumbing, a subcontractor to Lang Contracting, was seriously injured when he fell from the unprotected edge of a platform or makeshift footbridge used to traverse the span over a driveway that went beneath a private residence that was under construction. Employee #1 was a full time non-union employee with 25 years of experience and had been working for his current employer for 3 months. Employee #1 was using the platform that had been used to support a scaffold as a footbridge and lost his balance and fell to the driveway below. Employee #1 sustained two fractured heels and was hospitalized for treatment at Scripps Hospital in Encinitas, California.

Keywords: FRACTURE, GUARDRAIL, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, PLUMBING, WORK PLATFORM, FOOT

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition		$20,000,000 and over	1	12

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	301118659			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 11 feet Cause: Installing plumbing, lighting fixtures Fatality Cause: Fall from/with structure (other than roof)

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