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Accident: 115292.015 - Employee Falls From Scaffold And Sustains Concussion
Accident: 115292.015 -- Report ID: 0950621 -- Event Date: 03/09/2019 | |||||||
| Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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| 1392739.015 | 04/11/2019 | Tri County Contractor Complete Drywall Services | |||||
| At 1:30 p.m. on March 9, 2019, Employee #1, employed by a drywall contractor, wa s doing interior work in a unit of a multifamily residential building. He was i n the process of mudding drywall on an interior closet. While holding a tray of mud in his hand, the employee attempted to climb a 4-foot rolling scaffold to r each the top portion of the closet area without first locking the scaffold's whe els. As the employee attempted to step onto the bottom step of the scaffold, th e scaffold rolled out from under him, causing him to fall back and hit his head on the concrete floor, a fall height of approximately 2 feet. The employee was transported to the hospital, where he was admitted for treatment of a head concu ssion. | |||||||
Keywords:
blunt force trauma, brain, climbing, concrete, concussion, drywall, fall, fall protection, head, installing, locking pins, mobile scaffold, residential construction, struck against, unsecured, wheel
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| End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
| Multi-family dwelling | New project or new addition | ||||||
| Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
| 1 | 1392739.015 | 23 | M | Hospitalized injury | Drywall installers | FallDist: 2 FallHt: Cause: Interior carpentry FatCause: |
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