Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201780582 - Employee killed when struck by falling shoring frame

Accident Summary Nr: 201780582 -- Report ID: 0935000 -- Event Date: 10/20/2003
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
306711219	10/20/2003	1791	238120	Perini

Abstract: On October 20, 2003, Employee #1 was welding from a zoom boom near the sixth floor of a building under construction. He was struck by a shoring frame that fell from the eighth floor landing platform, and was killed. At the time of the accident, the frame was being rigged to be raised from the eighth to the eleventh floor.

Keywords: ERECTION PROCESS, RIGGING, UNSECURED, WORK RULES, WELDER, CONSTRUCTION, STRUCK BY, FALLING OBJECT

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition		$20,000,000 and over	12	130	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	306711219			Fatality	Puncture	Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Steel Erection Of Solid Web-Connecting Fatality Cause: Struck by falling object/projectile

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