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Accident: 116588.015 - Employee Incurs Multiple Injuries In Fall From Scaffold
Accident: 116588.015 -- Report ID: 0317300 -- Event Date: 05/10/2019 | |||||||
| Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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| 1402620.015 | 05/24/2019 | L. Wilson Masonry Inc. | |||||
| At 9:15 a.m. on May 10, 2019, Employee #1, employed by a masonry contractor, was working from a scaffold at the site of a new commercial building. He removed t he scaffold's guardrails and toeboards to unload masonry material and then, afte r replacing the guardrails but not the toeboards, he began mixing mortar in a mo rtar pan. As he worked, the employee stepped back, lost balance, and his feet s lipped under the guardrail. He fell at least 20 feet, striking the scaffold dec king/planking as he fell. The employee was transported to the hospital and admi tted for treatment of a 5 percent collapsed lung, fractured vertebrae, and bleed ing from the skull. | |||||||
Keywords:
blunt force trauma, collapsed lung, construction, decking, fall, fall protection, fracture, guardrail, hemorrhage, lost balance, planking, scaffold, skull, slip, struck against, unguarded, vertebra, walking backward, w
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| End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
| Commercial building | New project or new addition | 2 | 25 | ||||
| Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
| 1 | 1402620.015 | 20 | M | Hospitalized injury | Construction laborers | FallDist: 25 FallHt:25 Cause: Exterior masonry FatCause: |
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