Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202489209 - Employee Is Injured in Fall from Ladder

Accident Summary Nr: 202489209 -- Report ID: 0950621 -- Event Date: 06/23/2009
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
313228751	07/23/2009	1731	238210	Manuel Bros., Inc.

Abstract: On June 23, 2011, an employee, an operator and a coworker were working a cell tower site in a national forest. They were working on an ice bridge where they were installing trapeze assemblies that are bolted to the ice bridge. The employee was standing on a 6-ft step ladder with the assembly in one hand while trying to place a bolt through a hole so the coworker could bolt the assembly to the ice bridge. For an unknown reason, the ladder fell to one side and the employee fell with it, landing on top of the ladder. The coworker transported the employee to Trinity Hospital in Weaverville where he was transferred to Mercy Medical Center in Redding via helicopter. The employee sustained fractures to two ribs on his right side and a lacerated liver. He was released from the hospital 5 days later.

Keywords: FRACTURE, LADDER, LIVER, LACERATION, RIB, FALL, FALLING OBJECT

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Other building		New project or new addition		$50,000 to $250,000	1	12

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	313228751			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Electrical power installers and repairers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 40 feet Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite Fatality Cause: Fall from/with ladder

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