Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201097185 - Employee Injured When Falling Down a Flight of Stairs

Accident Summary Nr: 201097185 -- Report ID: 0950645 -- Event Date: 03/18/2004
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
126110915	04/06/2004	1711	238210	Red'S Plumbing

Abstract: At approximately 1:00 p.m. on March 18, 2004, Employee #1 was going to get some boxes off the stairway. Employee #1 was walking up a flight of stairs, he was anywhere from the third step to the fifth step in the stairway when he slipped and fell. The stairs was 24.5 inches wide and the steps had a inch run and a 8.75-inch rise. The guard rail was measured to be 35 inches high. However, an employee interview at the time of the inspection guardrail had been raised since the accident by about 4 inches. This made the guardrail at 31 inches at the time of the accident. Employee #1 lost feeling in his lower back area, but all feeling was restored by the time he left the hospital. He was hospitalized for five days.

Keywords: STAIR, GUARDRAIL, SLIP, CONSTRUCTION, BACK, FALL, WORK SURFACE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition		Under $50,000	1

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	126110915			Hospitalized injury	Other	Freight, stock and material handlers, n.e.c.	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Backfilling and compacting Fatality Cause: Drown, non-lethal fall

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