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Accident: 201180825 - Employee Falls 9.5 Feet At A Construction Site
Accident: 201180825 -- Report ID: 0950611 -- Event Date: 07/13/2001 | |||||||
| Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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| 300889847 | 08/29/2001 | 1751 | Los Gatos Construction Co, Inc. | ||||
| At approximately 8:15 a.m., on July 13, 2001, an employee working as a carpenter for Los Gatos Construction Co. was going around checking for shortages of hardware for the newly constructed homes. The employee was going to cross a single plank, which was in place across the deck of the adjacent unit, when the plank broke into two pieces. The employee fell approximately 9.5 feet onto a concrete block retaining wall that was being constructed. The employee was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, and treated for a head injury, a shattered right leg and knee, and two injured vertebrae. | |||||||
Keywords:
knee, head, blocks, construction, plank, retaining wall, concrete, leg
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| End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
| Multi-family dwelling | Other | $500,000 to $1,000,000 | 8 | ||||
| Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
| 1 | 300889847 | Hospitalized injury | Fracture | Carpenters | FallDist: FallHt:9 Cause: Other Activities-Post Decking Detail Work FatCause: Fall from/with platform catwalk (attached to struc |
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