Inspection Detail

Inspection: 307034504 - Fci-Bbci

Inspection Information - Office: San Diego District Office

Investigation Summary

At approximately 1:30 a.m. on July 8, 2006, Employee #1, an employee of FCI, was a carpenter apprentice and was working with a crew as part of a freeway reconstruction. The employees finished a task on the shoulder and crossed the active freeway to get to another work location. Employee #1 was injured when he jumped over the divider and fell 21 ft to the bottom of an unfinished roadbed. He was hospitalized for a fractured pelvis, a fractured wrist, a punctured lung and eye injuries. The employer had provided training, instructions, traffic controls and safe egress for the workers.

Keywords: EYE, FRACTURE, HIGHWAY, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, PELVIS, FALL, WRIST