Accident Report Detail
Accident: 130325.015 - Employee Dies After Falling From Unguarded Platform Basket
Accident: 130325.015 -- Report ID: 0855610 -- Event Date: 10/06/2020 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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1495897.015 | 10/06/2020 | Viking Development Llc | |||||
On October 6, 2020, Employee #1, employed by a construction company, was working at a multi-employer construction project for a new residential structure. He w as using a SkyTrak Rough Terrain Forklift with a homemade platform basket and in stalling exterior siding. The platform basket had no side rails, and the employ ee was not using a personal fall arrest system. The employee walked backward on the platform and fell from the unguarded right side, a fall height of 17 feet. He hit his head on a concrete patio. Emergency services transported the employ ee to the hospital, where he died of fall-related injuries two weeks later. | |||||||
Keywords:
aerial lift, basket, blunt force trauma, brain, concrete slab, elevated work platform, fall, fall protection, forklift, guardrail, head, installing, open-sided floor, residential construction, siding, skull, struck a
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Single family or duplex dwelling | New project or new addition | 2 | X | ||||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 1495897.015 | 44 | M | Fatality | Carpenters | FallDist: 17 FallHt:17 Cause: Installing metal siding FatCause: |