Accident Report Detail
Accident Summary Nr: 202542155 - Employee Suffers Fractures in Fall While Window Cleaning
Inspection Nr | Date Opened | SIC | NAICS | Establishment Name |
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300871407 | 08/03/2010 | 7349 | 561720 | Dms Window Cleaning & Metal Care Services Inc |
Abstract: On July 24, 2010, Employee #1, of DMS Window Cleaning and Metal Care Services Incorporated, was cleaning the windows on a four-story building by standing under each floor's window on an approximately 24 in. wide concrete ledge. Employee #1 stated he had set up all his fall protection down lines to structural beam projections along the edge of the roof and ran his boatswain's chair rigging through a roof drain and over a short parapet wall. For some reason, he fell 45 ft to the asphalt surface. He was hospitalized for treatment of a broken right ankle, broken left ribs, left wrist, left elbow, pelvis, L-3 vertabrae, and a punctured left lung.
Employee # | Inspection Nr | Age | Sex | Degree of Injury | Nature of Injury | Occupation |
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1 | 300871407 | Hospitalized injury | Fracture | Janitors and cleaners |