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Accident: 111928.015 - Employee Falls Down Shaft And Receives Multiple Injuries
Accident: 111928.015 -- Report ID: 0950614 -- Event Date: 12/03/2018 | |||||||
| Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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| 1366921.015 | 12/17/2018 | Advanced Construction Southwest Of California, Inc. | |||||
| At 10:08 a.m. on December 3, 2018, an employee was cutting a section of bottom p late to a wall secured by an anchor bolt in an attempt to remove it. The employe e operated a reciprocating saw (SawsAll) to cut the bottom plate and the claw si de of a claw hammer to pry up the edge. To pry up the board, the employee took a position next to and outside the protection of a nearby guardrail. The employee reached through the guardrail to pry up the board and lost his balance as the b oard began to move. The employee fell approximately twelve feet through a shaft opening and hospitalized for multiple fractures to the skull, wrist, ribs, and v ertebrae. The employee also sustained an epidural hematoma in the neck and a sev ered optical nerve that blinded the employee's right eye. | |||||||
Keywords:
back, cutting, eye, fall, fall protection, guardrail, hand tool, lost balance, open shaft, rib, saw, skull, vertebra, wrist
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| End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
| Multi-family dwelling | New project or new addition | 8 | |||||
| Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
| 1 | 1366921.015 | 39 | M | Hospitalized injury | Carpenter apprentices | FallDist: 12 FallHt:12 Cause: Installing interior walls, ceilings, doors FatCause: |
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