Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201630365 - EMPLOYEE INJURED IN FALL FROM LADDER

Accident Summary Nr: 201630365 -- Report ID: 1054111 -- Event Date: 05/11/1998
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
302141809	05/29/1998	1791	0	R&J Metal Fabricators Inc

Abstract: Employee #1 was working off of a twenty foot extension ladder. Employee #1 had placed the extension ladder against a steel electrode structure that had been set by a crane in order to release the rigging. Employee #1 fell approximately twenty feet to a concrete surface and broke both legs and a wrist. Employee #1 was hospitalized.

Keywords: FRACTURE, RIGGING, EXTENSION LADDER, FALL, CRANE, LEG, WRIST

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Manufacturing plant		Alteration or rehabilitation		Under $50,000	1	30

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	302141809			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Construction trades, n.e.c.	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 30 feet Cause: Steel Erection Of Solid Web-Landing Materials (Hoi Fatality Cause: Fall from/with ladder

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