Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202317913 - Employee Fractures Wrist Jumping from Drill

Accident Summary Nr: 202317913 -- Report ID: 0950653 -- Event Date: 12/27/2010
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
311672695	01/03/2011	1622	237310	Sja Inc Dba Anderson Drilling

Abstract: At approximately 9:00 a.m. on December 27, 2010, Employee #1, an oiler, assisted an operator in demobilizing a Wirth crawler rotary hydraulic foundation drill (Model ECOdrill 40). Employee #1 was standing on the tracks of the drill. He jumped off the tracks of the drill onto wet ground and broke his wrist while breaking his fall. The distance from the tracks of the drill to the ground was approximately 36 in. Employee #1 was hospitalized for approximately 2.5 days.

Keywords: FRACTURE, DRILL OPERATOR, WRIST

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Manufacturing plant		Alteration or rehabilitation		Under $50,000	1	40

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	311672695			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Operating engineers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Site grading and rock removal Fatality Cause: Other

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