Accident Report Detail
Accident: 96135.015 - Employee Falls Into Trench, Incurs Concussion, And Fractures
Accident: 96135.015 -- Report ID: 0950631 -- Event Date: 06/02/2017 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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1237938.015 | 06/07/2017 | Sukut Construction, Llc; Sukut Construction, Inc. | |||||
At 11:15 a.m. on June 2, 2017, Employee #1 and Coworker #1, employed by a constr uction company, were working on a pipe installation, part of a road construction project. They were positioned near the edge of an 11-foot trench/excavation an d using large wrenches to tighten bolts on a 24-inch butterfly valve. Employee #1 was approximately 4 feet away from the trench when his wrench slipped from a bolt. He stumbled backward and fell into the trench, a fall height of approxima tely 11 feet. Emergency services were called, and Employee #1 was extracted fro m the trench and transported to the hospital. He was admitted and treated for a mild concussion and compression fractures to spinal vertebrae T8, T11, and T12. | |||||||
Keywords:
bolt, butterfly valve, concussion, construction, fall, fall protection, fracture, lost balance, trench, wrench
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Highway, road, street | New project or new addition | $5,000,000 to $20,000,000 | |||||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 1237938.015 | 50 | M | Hospitalized injury | Construction laborers | FallDist: 11 FallHt:11 Cause: Trenching, installing pipe FatCause: |