Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201070299 - Employee Is Injured in Fall from Height at Freeway

Accident Summary Nr: 201070299 -- Report ID: 0950632 -- Event Date: 07/08/2006
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
307034504	08/09/2006	1622	237310	Fci-Bbci

Abstract: At approximately 1:30 a.m. on July 8, 2006, Employee #1, an employee of FCI, was a carpenter apprentice and was working with a crew as part of a freeway reconstruction. The employees finished a task on the shoulder and crossed the active freeway to get to another work location. Employee #1 was injured when he jumped over the divider and fell 21 ft to the bottom of an unfinished roadbed. He was hospitalized for a fractured pelvis, a fractured wrist, a punctured lung and eye injuries. The employer had provided training, instructions, traffic controls and safe egress for the workers.

Keywords: EYE, FRACTURE, HIGHWAY, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, PELVIS, FALL, WRIST

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Highway, road, street		Alteration or rehabilitation		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000		21

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	307034504			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Carpenter apprentices	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 21 feet Cause: Forming Fatality Cause: Fall, other

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