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Accident Summary Nr: 200532521 - Employee Is Killed in Fall from Homemade Personnel Cha

Accident Summary Nr: 200532521 -- Report ID: 0751910 -- Event Date: 09/05/2008
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
312590094	09/08/2008	1542	236220	Bradley Sales Co.

Abstract: At approximately 9:10 a.m. on September 5, 2008, Employee #1 was installing a cross auger in a grain bin, with two coworkers. Employee #1 was elevated in a homemade personnel chair lift in a Tadano 27.5-ton crane (Model Number TR250E), operated by a coworker. Employee #1 was removing a flexible spout from a mobile auger. Employee #1 was not using a personal fall arrest system or any other means of fall protection. Employee #1 leaned out of the personnel chair lift and fell to the steep pitched grain bin roof, then to the ground, approximately 25 feet. Employee #1 was killed in the fall. Employee # 1 worked for Bradley Sales Company.

Keywords: CHAIR, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, ELEVATED WORK PLAT, GRAIN BIN, CRANE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Other building		New project or new addition		Under $50,000	3	25	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	312590094			Fatality	Fracture	Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 25 feet Cause: Erecting structural steel Fatality Cause: Fall, other

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