Accident Report Detail
Accident: 200524114 - Employee Killed In Fall From Boom Truck
Accident: 200524114 -- Report ID: 0751910 -- Event Date: 04/10/2001 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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303741771 | 04/13/2001 | 0783 | John Janssen Tree Service | ||||
At approximately 11:00 a.m., Employee #1 was standing in the bucket of an extensible boom truck cutting limbs from the top of a tree outside of a funeral home. The upper boom cylinder failed and suddenly dropped the boom. Employee #1 fell approximately 40 feet from the bucket and was killed. He was not wearing any personal protective equipment or using fall protection equipment. | |||||||
Keywords:
boom truck, tree limb, cylinder, ppe, tree, fall, fall protection
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Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | |
1 | 303741771 | Fatality | Fracture | Occupation not reported |