Accident Report Detail
Accident: 200030708 - Employee Injured In Fall Into Hole For Sign Post
Accident: 200030708 -- Report ID: 0521700 -- Event Date: 06/22/1999 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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302113550 | 06/22/1999 | 1791 | All-Steel Structures, Inc. | ||||
On June 22, 1999, Employee #1 and a coworker were offloading materials from a flatbed truck at a billboard erection site. A drilling contractor had just completed boring a 36 ft deep pit where the bottom of the sign was to be placed and had pulled away. Employee #1 and the coworker guided a piece of the billboard to a spot approximately 8 ft 6 in. from the pit. Employee #1 was removing the slings used to lift the material when he fell into the unguarded hole. He sustained injuries that required hospitalization. | |||||||
Keywords:
erection process, barrier guard, work rules, construction, pit, fall, off loading, advertising sign, unguarded, work surface
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Other heavy construction | New project or new addition | $50,000 to $250,000 | 36 | ||||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 302113550 | Hospitalized injury | Fracture | Occupation not reported | FallDist: FallHt:36 Cause: Excavation FatCause: Fall, other |