Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 79390.015 - Employee dies after fall

Accident Summary Nr: 79390.015 -- Report ID: 0214200 -- Event Date: 08/31/2015
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1089545.015	09/02/2015		238130	The Flores Contractors, Llc.

Abstract: At 2:15 p.m. on August 31, 2015, an employee was assisting the owner and one other employee of this company with sill plate placement on top of the foundation wall on this new residential construction site. This involved placing the sill plate gasket on top of the concrete block and placing 2 inch x 6 inch planks on the wall such that holes were drilled in the planks to be fastened to the foundation by the anchor bolts. The employee was on top of the foundation wall involved in some phase of this process and jumped off the wall to the ground after the company owner asked him to move so the owner could place the sill plate gasket. The employee went behind the owner and out of his view and either fell 12 feet 6 inches to the basement level either from standing on the ground and going over the foundation wall or from standing on the top of the foundation wall and falling from there. The employee sustained a depressed left sided skull fracture in the temporal area of the skull accompanied by subdural hemorrhaging. He also sustained facial bone fractures. He was in a coma for 8 days and died on 09/08/2015.

Keywords: Fall, Masonry Wall, Residential Construction

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition		Under $50,000	0	0	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1089545.015	33	M	Fatality		Carpenter	Distance of Fall: 13 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 0 feet Cause: Exterior carpentry Fatality Cause:

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