Abstract: At approximately 4:30 p.m. on September 4, 2007, Employee #1, who worked for a general contractor, was at a restaurant construction site in Temecula, CA. He was standing on a 2 ft by 12 ft wooden plank that had been placed across the footing, watching an engineer conduct soil tests. The engineer was standing at the edge of the footing hole and placing a metal rod into it when the plank broke. Employee #1 fell approximately 7 ft into the footing, fracturing his left femur. He was taken to Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar, CA, where he was hospitalized for five days and underwent surgery. Employee #1 was wearing a hard hat, safety glasses, and work boots. He later said that the plank had been placed across the excavation so that he could observe the soil testing.