Accident Report Detail
Accident: 951657 - Employee Killed When Porch Roof Collapses
Accident: 951657 -- Report ID: 0355114 -- Event Date: 01/27/1997 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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125434357 | 01/27/1997 | 1751 | Trebor Construction Co. Inc. | ||||
At approximately 12:58 p.m. on January 27, 1997, Employee #1 was standing on the porch of a two-story wood home. He was preparing to remove temporary posts from underneath the 10 ft long and approximately 1,000 lb portico and install permanent posts on each side. He used a hammer to knock out one post and then the other post, at which point the portico fell on top of him. Employee #1 received multiple fractures of the head and body and died. He had not installed a permanent post each time he removed a temporary post. | |||||||
Keywords:
roof collapse, fracture, head, installing, unsecured, work rules, construction, struck by, unstable position
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Single family or duplex dwelling | New project or new addition | $50,000 to $250,000 | 2 | 23 | X | ||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 125434357 | Fatality | Fracture | Carpenters | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Exterior carpentry FatCause: Collapse of structure |