Accident Report Detail
Accident: 201079050 - Employee Falls Through Ceiling And Is Injured
Accident: 201079050 -- Report ID: 0950632 -- Event Date: 05/28/2013 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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315348128 | 06/04/2013 | 1721 | Brad Stoner Painting, Inc. | ||||
At approximately 12:15 p.m. on May 28, 2013, Employee #1, a painter, was working at the remodeling of a commercial property. The worksite was a single story suite. The interior of the suite included an office space with drop ceiling and a warehouse in the rear with a high ceiling. Employee #1 was painting the interior warehouse walls. He used a 16 ft ladder to get to the portion of the wall visible in the warehouse and above the false ceiling. Employee #1 stepped onto one of the ceiling panels and broke through, falling onto the carpeted floor of the front office below. The height of the fall was 8.5 ft. He suffered a fractured left wrist and facial laceration in the fall. Employee #1 was transported to a medical center, where he received treatment and underwent surgery on the fracture. After undergoing medical procedures, he was hospitalized for more than 24 hours. | |||||||
Keywords:
fracture, suspended ceiling, laceration, fall, face, painter, wrist
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Commercial building | Maintenance or repair | Under $50,000 | 1 | ||||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 315348128 | Hospitalized injury | Fracture | Painters, construction and maintenance | FallDist: FallHt:9 Cause: Interior painting and decorating FatCause: Fall through opening (other than roof) |