Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170360010 - FALL IN ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION PLANT

Accident Summary Nr: 170360010 -- Report ID: 0950623 -- Event Date: 05/21/1994
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
111967352	05/26/1994	4911	0	Ca Water Resources

Abstract: A maintenance worker was cleaning up after the reassembly of a unit at a large underground electric power generating plant. He had picked up materials and was making sure that no tools or parts were left in the unit. The employee fell. (He did not remember where he was exactly, and there were no witnesses.) Evidence indicated that he fell from a height of between 9 and 14 feet, either from somewhere on the unit or from the main floor level. The employee was hospitalized for two fractured vertebrae and one cracked vertebra, with a prognosis of paraplegia.

Keywords: FRACTURE, PARALYSIS, ELEC UTILITY WORK, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, VERTEBRA, ELECTRIC GENERATOR

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	111967352			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Machinery maintenance occupations

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