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Accident: 201404829 - Employee Fractures His Arm When He Falls With Roof Trusses

**Accident: 201404829 -- Report ID: 0552651 -- Event Date: 01/17/2001**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
127085785	01/17/2001	1751	Johnson Construction Co

Employee #1 was aligning 75-ft-long wooden trusses with an 8-12 pitch. Fourteen of thirty trusses fell to the floor along with Employee #1. He was hospitalized with a fractured arm.

Keywords: fracture, truss, roof, collapse, pinned, crushed, roofer, fall, struck by, arm

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition		$500,000 to $1,000,000	2

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	127085785			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Construction laborers	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Exterior carpentry FatCause: Collapse of structure

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