Accident Report Detail
Accident: 115725.015 - Employee Falls Three Stories Down And Fractures Vertebrate
Accident: 115725.015 -- Report ID: 0420600 -- Event Date: 04/12/2019 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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1396148.015 | 04/24/2019 | Precision Fire Systems Inc. | |||||
At 8:00 a.m. on April 12, 2019, an employee was installing fire sprinkler piping on an apartment located on the third floor. After installing the pipe for the s prinkler head facing the balcony, the employee went onto the third floor unprote cted balcony to ensure the newly installed pipe was straight. As he looked up t o the pipe, he kept walking backward. The employee fell from the unprotected b alcony down 32 feet to the ground. The employee fractured the vertebrate and th umb and was hospitalized. | |||||||
Keywords:
fall, fracture, installing, thumb, unprotected, vertebra, walk platform, walking backward
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Multi-family dwelling | New project or new addition | 4 | 32 | ||||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 1396148.015 | 31 | M | Hospitalized injury | Installers And Repairers | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Installing underground plumbing conduit FatCause: |