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Accident: 201067709 - Two Employees Fall From Elevated Platform And Are Injured
Accident: 201067709 -- Report ID: 0950632 -- Event Date: 07/14/2004 | |||||||
| Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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| 125943951 | 07/20/2004 | 1521 | J Alvarez Construction Inc | ||||
| At approximately 8:15 a.m. on July 14, 2004, three employees were being lifted to the third story of residential apartment complex under new construction inside a basket. The three employees in the elevated platform were all framers. One employee, Employee #3, successfully exited the platform at the third floor level of the building causing a shift in the weight of the basket, making it unstable on the forks of the industrial truck. The basket tipped over with the two employees still inside basket. Employee #1 and Employee #2 fell to the ground with the top of the elevated basket falling on top of them. Employee #1 sustain a broken right tibia and head injuries and Employee #2 is permanently paralyzed from his neck to his toes as a result of the three-story fall from the unsecured elevated basket lifted by an industrial truck. Both employees were hospitalized. | |||||||
Keywords:
fracture, head, paralysis, tibia, unsecured, equipment failure, industrial truck, unstable surface, fall, elevated work plat
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| End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
| Multi-family dwelling | New project or new addition | $50,000 to $250,000 | 3 | 40 | |||
| Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
| 1 | 125943951 | Hospitalized injury | Fracture | Carpenters | FallDist: FallHt:18 Cause: Exterior carpentry FatCause: Fall from/with bucket (aerial lift/basket) |
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| 2 | 125943951 | Hospitalized injury | Other | Carpenters | FallDist: FallHt:18 Cause: Exterior carpentry FatCause: Fall from/with bucket (aerial lift/basket) |
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