Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202345443 - Employee Suffers Heat Exhaustion and Dies

Accident Summary Nr: 202345443 -- Report ID: 0420600 -- Event Date: 08/16/2005
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
309323079	08/17/2005	1799	238990	Weller Pools Llc

Abstract: Employee #1 was a temporary employee and this was his first day on the job. Employee #1 was helping to set reinforcing steel into the walls of the pool as it was being built. At approximately 2:00 p.m. Employee #1 said he was not feeling well and was escorted out of the pool to the break area. Employee #1 stumbled and fell several times while walking to the break area. At the break area the foreman called emergency services and Employee #1 was transported to the hospital where he later died.

Keywords: HEAT, CONSTRUCTION, POOL, HEAT EXHAUSTION

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition		$500,000 to $1,000,000			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	309323079			Fatality	Heat Exhaustion	Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Swimming pool construction Fatality Cause: Heat/hypothermia

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