Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202439733 - Employee injured in fall from one-story top plate

Accident Summary Nr: 202439733 -- Report ID: 0950633 -- Event Date: 08/12/2004
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
307454140	08/20/2004	1751	238130	Westcor Construction

Abstract: At approximately 8:30 a.m. on August 12, 2004, Employee #1, a stacker for Westcor Construction, was framing up a one-story top plate on a home under construction in Indio, CA. He was holding onto one end of a 25 ft long roof truss while a coworker worked up the other end. The coworker was setting the next roof truss when it rolled and the end of the 25 ft truss dropped. Employee #1 tried to hold on, but he lost his balance and fell 9 ft off the top plate, landing on his head on the concrete. He suffered a serious head injury and was transported to Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, CA, where he was hospitalized for 23 days. The main causal factor in this accident was the coworker's failure to nail a doubler truss to the top plate before beginning to set the next roof truss.

Keywords: ERECTION PROCESS, WOOD ERECTION, HEAD, TRUSS, INSTALLING, UNSECURED, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, LOST BALANCE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000	1	9

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	307454140			Hospitalized injury	Concussion	Carpenters	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 9 feet Cause: Exterior carpentry Fatality Cause: Fall from/with structure (other than roof)

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