Accident Report Detail
Accident: 131678.015 - Employee Is Killed In Fall From Third Floor Fire Escape
Accident: 131678.015 -- Report ID: 0950611 -- Event Date: 10/07/2020 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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1496416.015 | 10/07/2020 | San Francisco Fire Dept | |||||
At 11:00 a.m. on October 7, 2020, a local fire department employee was participa ting in a standpipe drill at the department local training center. The employee was on the 3rd floor turning on a water valve near the fire escape. The standpip e outlet was approximately a foot away beyond the fire escape railing. The Y-out let itself had two outlets to accommodate the attachment of 2 hoses. It is a pol icy that the outer outlet that is furthest away from the fire escape be connecte d and it was so connected. Partway through the drill, for reasons unknown, the e mployee went from the floor onto the fire escape and turned on the lever for the 2nd outlet of the Y-valve (which had no hose attached). This caused water to fl ow out the valve at 100 psi, hitting the employee and pushing him off balance an d backwards over the railing. He fell approximately 27 feet to the ground, suffe ring blunt force head trauma and was killed. | |||||||
Keywords:
blunt force, blunt force trauma, fall, fall protection, fire brigade/department, fire escape, fire ext system, fire fighter, head, high pressure, high pressure pipe, pressure piping, pressure release, skull, traini
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Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | |
1 | 1496416.015 | 42 | M | Fatality | Fire Fighter |