Accident Report Detail
Accident: 126685.015 - Employee Is Killed When Struck By Falling Doors
Accident: 126685.015 -- Report ID: 0854910 -- Event Date: 05/05/2020 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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1474224.015 | 05/05/2020 | Gardner & Boswell Construction Inc | |||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
1474223.015 | 05/05/2020 | Boswell Wasatch Mill, Llc | |||||
At 10:30 a.m. on May 5, 2020, Employee #1 and two coworkers, employed by a construction company, were assisting the two employees of a delivery company to unload doors at a residential construction site. The doors were delivered in a box truck, stacked and secured by straps along the truck's wall. One of the delivery employees unstrapped a stack of doors and took one door into the house. The remaining stacked but now unstrapped doors began to tip away from the wall and fall. Employee #1 was struck in the head by six falling doors and pinned against a wall of the truck. He sustained traumatic head injury and was killed. | |||||||
Keywords:
pinned, falling object, material handling, residential construction, loading, head, door, struck by, unsecured, blunt force trauma, unstable load
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Multi-family dwelling | New project or new addition | 12 | X | ||||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 1474224.015 | 27 | F | Fatality | Concussion | Construction laborers | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: FatCause: Struck by falling object/projectile |
2 | 1474223.015 | 27 | F | Fatality | Concussion | Construction laborers | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: FatCause: Struck by falling object/projectile |