Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 684514 - Employee killed in fall from stairway

Accident Summary Nr: 684514 -- Report ID: 0522000 -- Event Date: 01/25/1994
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103385795	01/25/1994	1795	0	Sarah Contracting Inc.

Abstract: Employee #1, working to fulfill a demolition contract, was cutting away a stairway with a torch. The stairway was located between a precipitator structure being demolished and a fixed catwalk attached to a fixed boiler house structure. The stairway was suspended in its middle to upper area by wire rope slings attached to the boom of a hydraulic truck crane. As the stairway was cut away, the lower portion of the stairway-landing pulled away from the precipitator, causing the lower portion of the stairway to swing down and away. Employee #1 fell approximately 43 feet. He struck the adjacent boiler house structure and a pipe that was lying on the ground adjacent to the boiler house. Employee #1 died.

Keywords: STAIR, DEMOLITION, DISMANTLING, UNSECURED, STRUCK AGAINST, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, PIPE

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	103385795			Fatality	Cut/Laceration	Occupation not reported

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