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Accident: 201613684 - Employee Injured In Fall From Bridge Scaffold Into River
Accident: 201613684 -- Report ID: 1054113 -- Event Date: 02/07/2008 | |||||||
| Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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| 311703524 | 02/08/2008 | 1622 | Concrete Enterprises Inc | ||||
| At approximately 9:00 a.m. on February 7, 2008, Employee #1 was on a scaffold, stripping forms from a concrete column on a bridge. He took the 4 ft by 8 ft sheet of plywood from the column and passed it to a coworker. As Employee #1 let go of the plywood, the cantilever scaffold support on which he was standing broke loose from the concrete beam and he fell approximately 8 ft to the next level. He teetered there for several seconds, fell backward off that platform, struck his left shoulder on a beam at a lower level, and then plunged into the river. He fell approximately 35 ft overall and, once in the river, was submerged by the fast-flowing current. Employee #1 was rescued approximately 15 minutes later. He suffered fractures to his back and neck, a punctured lung, and hypothermia. | |||||||
Keywords:
concrete form work, fracture, dismantling, work rules, construction, equipment failure, back, river, fall, fall protection
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| End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
| Bridge | New project or new addition | $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 | 35 | ||||
| Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
| 1 | 311703524 | Hospitalized injury | Fracture | Construction laborers | FallDist: FallHt:35 Cause: Forming FatCause: Fall from/with scaffold |
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