Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 604843 - Employee dies in 80 ft fall from water tower ladder

Accident Summary Nr: 604843 -- Report ID: 0418600 -- Event Date: 06/01/1992
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
107008658	06/02/1992	1791	0	Phoenix Fabricators & Erectors Inc.

Abstract: Employee #1 had just finished welding a 16 ft by 5 ft diameter pipe and was getting off a boatswains chair and onto a fixed steel ladder on a water tower. He was waiting for another 20 ft steel ladder so he could weld another pipe when he fell 80 ft from the steel ladder to the pipe base. Employee #1 died.

Keywords: WATER TOWER, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, FIXED LADDER, FALL, FALL PROTECTION

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	107008658			Fatality	Fracture	Occupation not reported

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