Accident Report Detail
Accident: 202544094 - Employee'S Back Is Broke In Fall From Basket Of Man Lift
Accident: 202544094 -- Report ID: 0950641 -- Event Date: 07/24/2012 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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314862731 | 07/24/2012 | 1721 | Art'S Painting & Cleaning Services Inc. | ||||
At approximately 7:30 a.m. on July 24, 2012, Employee #1, a painter was performing a sporadically assigned task of positioning the man lift to finish painting a building. The employee was positioning the man lift when he rolled over a utility cover. The man lift crushed the utility cover tipping the man lift over. Employee #1 was not wearing a harness and fell from the basket of the man lift. The employee suffered a fracture to his back in the fall. Employee #1 was transported to Huntington Memorial Hospital, where he was treated for a broke back and remains hospitalized. | |||||||
Keywords:
fracture, cover, roll-over, back, crushed, fall, elevator, painter
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Commercial building | Alteration or rehabilitation | Under $50,000 | 3 | 36 | |||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 314862731 | Hospitalized injury | Fracture | Painting and paint spraying machine operators | FallDist: FallHt:25 Cause: Exterior painting FatCause: Fall from/with bucket (aerial lift/basket) |