Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202347506 - Employee Suffers Cracked Ribs In Fall

Accident Summary Nr: 202347506 -- Report ID: 0352410 -- Event Date: 06/23/2003
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
306829342	06/23/2003	1521	236115	Timothy Ramey Construction, Inc.

Abstract: Employee #1 was working from a scaffold platform located approximately 16 ft above ground level. One end of the platform was supported by a wooden trestle ladder and the other end was supported by a ladder jack mounted on a yellow-colored 20-ft fiberglass extension ladder. It could never be determined whether the scaffold was ever overloaded, but the side rails of the ladder sheared immediately below the rung where the ladder jack was installed. When the side rails failed, the scaffold collapsed. Since Employee #1 was working on the scaffold platform without personal fall arrest equipment, he fell with the collapsing scaffold platform to the ground. Employee #1 lost consciousness and suffered cracked ribs. Employee #1 was hospitalized.

Keywords: UNCONSCIOUSNESS, LADDER, OVERLOADED, SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE, LADDER JACK SCAFFOLD, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, UNGUARDED, SCAFFOLD

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition		$50,000 to $250,000	2	16

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	306829342			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Roofers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 16 feet Cause: Roofing Fatality Cause: Fall from/with scaffold

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