Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201072584 - Employee Is Killed When Struck by Falling Beams

Accident Summary Nr: 201072584 -- Report ID: 0950632 -- Event Date: 05/29/2008
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
310816962	05/29/2008	1795	238910	Whillock Contracting Inc

Abstract: At approximately 12:20 p.m. on May 29, 2008, Employee #1, a part-time seasonal day-laborer, was performing sweep-up duties in an active demolition project. He and a coworker were working along the periphery of an excavator that was pulling down a segment of a tilt-up concrete wall. As the operator of the excavator brought down the wall, two steel vertical support I-beams, tied together by a horizontal brace, fell. The coworker alerted Employee #1 to run, but he ran in the wrong direction. He was struck by the collapsing I-beams and was killed.

Keywords: CLEARANCE, STEEL BEAM, WALL, CLEANING, CONSTRUCTION, CRUSHED, EXCAVATOR, STRUCK BY, FALLING OBJECT

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		Demolition		$500,000 to $1,000,000	1	34	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	310816962			Fatality	Other	Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Demolition Fatality Cause: Collapse of structure

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