Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201068657 - Employee Is Injured in Fall Through Skylight

Accident Summary Nr: 201068657 -- Report ID: 0950632 -- Event Date: 03/23/2005
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
307030114	03/24/2005	2099	311942	The Great Spice Company

Abstract: At approximately 3:00 p.m. on March 23, 2005, an employee, a warehouseman at The Great American Spice Company, was waterproofing a Plexiglas skylight that was dripping water into the warehouse because of accumulated rainfall on the roof. When the employee climbed up onto the roof with a plastic trash bag, he leaned against the Plexiglas and fell approximately 15 ft to the concrete floor. The employee fractured both wrist and vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized at Palomar Hospital for greater than 24 hours.

Keywords: SKYLIGHT, FRACTURE, ROOF, FALL, VERTEBRA, WRIST

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	307030114			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Packaging and filling machine operators

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