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Accident: 118643.015 - Employee Fractures Skull In Fall From Scaffold

Accident: 118643.015 -- Report ID: 0950643 -- Event Date: 03/14/2019
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
1391431.01504/08/2019Davis Plastering Inc
At 9:30 a.m. on March 14, 2019, Employee #1, employed by a plastering contractor , was doing plastering repair work at a one-story residential structure. He was working from a four-foot scaffold and looking up at the ceiling when he inadver tently walked off the scaffold, which lacked guardrails. The employee was trans ported to the hospital and admitted for treatment of a fractured skull, fracture s to the face, and a concussion.
Keywords: blunt force trauma, ceiling, concussion, fall, fall protection, fracture, head, plaster, rehabilitation, repair, residential construction, scaffold, skull, unguarded, work surface
End Use Proj Type Proj Cost Stories NonBldgHt Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling Alteration or rehabilitation   1 4
Employee # Inspection Age Sex Degree Nature Occupation Construction
1 1391431.015 29 M Hospitalized injury Plasterers FallDist: 4
FallHt:4
Cause: Plastering
FatCause:

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