Accident Report Detail
Accident: 95217.015 - Employee Is Injured In Fall Through The Stair Well
Accident: 95217.015 -- Report ID: 0953210 -- Event Date: 03/20/2017 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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1221757.015 | 03/20/2017 | Engineered Structures, Inc. | |||||
At approximately 11:45 a.m. on March 20, 2017, an employee was communicating wit h welders at the bottom of a wood framed stair well by voice and a crane operato r to position a flight of steel stairs to be welded into place. The employee was leaning against the top rail of a guard rail system. When one side of the guar d rail detached from the post, the employee fell 57 feet. The employee hit hori zontal supports on the way to the stairs and floor 57 feet below and suffered fr actured ribs, a fractured hip, sprains and dislocation of a knee, hernia his abd omen. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||||
Keywords:
abdomen, dislocated, fall, fracture, guardrail, hip, rib, stair
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Multi-family dwelling | New project or new addition | $5,000,000 to $20,000,000 | 6 | 57 | |||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 1221757.015 | 52 | M | Hospitalized injury | Carpenters | FallDist: 57 FallHt:57 Cause: Exterior carpentry FatCause: |