Accident Report Detail
Accident: 130136.015 - Employee Is Killed In Fall From Ladder
Accident: 130136.015 -- Report ID: 0626300 -- Event Date: 10/06/2020 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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1496308.015 | 10/07/2020 | Lundy Services, Llc | |||||
At 12:45 p.m. on October 6, 2020, Employee #1, employed by a woodworking contrac tor, was working at a multi-employer construction project, a five-story multifam ily residential structure. He was using a 4-foot A-frame stepladder and a pneum atic nail gun to install a lapboard ceiling. The ladder was set up next to an u nstable and unsecured table. The employee was standing on top of the ladder and reaching out to install the boards over the table area. The employee lost his balance and fell. The table fell over, its top came loose, and the employee la nded on top of one of the iron braces affixed to the table, the brace now sticki ng up in the air. Employee #1 sustained internal injuries to his abdominal area and was killed. | |||||||
Keywords:
abdomen, blunt force trauma, brace, bracing, carpenter, ceiling, fall, fall protection, impaled, installing, leaning over, lost balance, metal bar, nail gun, residential construction, steel, stepladder, struck against
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Multi-family dwelling | New project or new addition | 5 | X | ||||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 1496308.015 | 34 | M | Fatality | Carpenters | FallDist: 4 FallHt:4 Cause: Interior carpentry FatCause: |