Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 94345.015 - Employee is injured in fall from scaffold

Accident Summary Nr: 94345.015 -- Report ID: 0524500 -- Event Date: 03/20/2017
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1221424.015	03/29/2017		236220	Vissering Construction Company

Abstract: At approximately 3:10 p.m. on March 20, 2017, an employee, a carpenter, was in the process of taking a measurement to install j-channel and flashing around a gang of three windows. The employee was working approximately nine feet off the concrete surface below off of scaffold plank that was cantilevered off the side of a scissors lift. While measuring the top of the windows the employees fell off the planking suffering a fractured left pelvis in front and back, fractured tailbone, four fractured ribs, left separated shoulder and lacerations on the left thumb. The employees was transported and admitted to Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana.

Keywords: Aerial Lift, Back, Carpenter, Elevated Work Platform, Fall, Fracture, Laceration, Pelvis, Scaffold, Shoulder, Vertebra

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition		$5,000,000 to $20,000,000	2	45

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1221424.015	56	M	Hospitalized injury		Carpenters	Distance of Fall: 9 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 9 feet Cause: Interior carpentry Fatality Cause:

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