Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201128501 - Employee Is Injred in Fall from Ladder

Accident Summary Nr: 201128501 -- Report ID: 0950613 -- Event Date: 03/31/2011
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
310099593	04/07/2011	1531	236220	Streamline Builders

Abstract: At the time of the accident, Employee #1 was securing a ten-foot portable metal extension ladder. The accident occurred on the first floor of an existing building. It could not be determined from the physical evidence available as to the angle of the ladder. Employee #1 fell from the ladder. As result of the accident, Employee #1 was transported to Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto CA, where he spent less than twenty-four hours for treatment of the dislocated elbow and arm fracture. The work site was a commercial remodeling project for the "Hospitality Department" of Mission College Community College in Santa Clara, CA.

Keywords: FRACTURE, EXTENSION LADDER, CONSTRUCTION, DISLOCATED, FALL, ARM, ELBOW

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		Alteration or rehabilitation		$500,000 to $1,000,000	1	10

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	310099593			Hospitalized injury	Dislocation	Occupation not reported	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 6 feet Cause: Installing plumbing, lighting fixtures Fatality Cause: Fall from/with ladder

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