Accident Report Detail
Accident: 201953957 - Employee Injured In Fall When Ejected From Truck Bucket
Accident: 201953957 -- Report ID: 0522000 -- Event Date: 09/22/2004 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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308181197 | 09/27/2004 | 1731 | Black & White Technologies Group, Inc. | ||||
On September 22, 2004, Employee #1, who worked for Black & White Technologies Group, Inc., was in the bucket of a boom truck helping to remove a temporary light pole near the entrance to a high school. He was using a rope to pull on the pole when the rope snapped and he was ejected from the bucket. Employee #1 fell approximately 30 ft to the ground, sustaining injuries that required hospitalizarion. He was using not any form of fall protection. | |||||||
Keywords:
ejected, boom truck, rope, work rules, construction, equipment failure, fall, fall protection, truck boom, aerial lift
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Other building | New project or new addition | $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 | 3 | 30 | |||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 308181197 | Hospitalized injury | Fracture | Occupation not reported | FallDist: FallHt:30 Cause: Temporary work (buildings, facilities) FatCause: Fall from/with bucket (aerial lift/basket) |