Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201073368 - Employee Is Injured in Fall from Brodge

Accident Summary Nr: 201073368 -- Report ID: 0950632 -- Event Date: 09/30/2008
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
310818885	10/15/2008	1622	237310	Bert W Salas Inc

Abstract: At approximately 8:12 a.m. on September 30, 2008, Employee #1 was using a portable saw to cut through a wooden plank, measuring 8-feet long by 5.25-feet wide by 5.38-feet thick. This section of word was part of decking for a pedestrian/horse trail that spanned 250 feet. The wooden portion undergoing construction had significant burn damage as a result of wild wires in October of 2007. Each wooden plank is fastened down to steel support beams that make up the frame of the bridge. As Employee #1 was cutting through the wood plank, which had burn damage, it became unfastened from one of the steel support beams. Employee #1, as well as his supervisor, who was located nearby, fell through the opening in the decking and landed in a dry sandy river bed that was approximately 25 feet below. Employee #1 was taken to Palomar Hospital in Escondido by helicopter, where he was hospitalized and treated for fractures to his ribs, pelvis, tailbone, and vertebras, as well as a ruptured spleen and lacerated liver.

Keywords: FRACTURE, SPLEEN, CONSTRUCTION, LIVER, PELVIS, RIB, UNSTABLE SURFACE, FALL, BRIDGE, VERTEBRA

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Bridge		Alteration or rehabilitation		$500,000 to $1,000,000		25

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	310818885			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Laborers, except construction	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 25 feet Cause: Placing bridge deck Fatality Cause: Fall from/with structure (other than roof)

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