Accident Report Detail
Accident: 981555 - Employee Killed When Struck By Collapsing Wall
Accident: 981555 -- Report ID: 0257210 -- Event Date: 07/22/1997 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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300917051 | 07/24/1997 | 1521 | Ramon Rosa Muriel | ||||
At 9:00 a.m. on July 22, 1997, Employee #1, a carpenter, and a coworker were at the south side of a house under construction, making a concrete column to fasten a block wall. The employee was going to measure the wooden form for the column and stepped on a wooden scaffold that had been constructed for this job. He had just asked the coworker for a wooden form to nail up for the column when the block wall fell down on him. Employee #1 was transported to the hospital, where he died. | |||||||
Keywords:
concrete form work, wall, collapse, unsecured, carpenter, work rules, construction, struck by, concrete block
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Single family or duplex dwelling | New project or new addition | Under $50,000 | X | ||||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 300917051 | Fatality | Other | Carpenters | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Exterior masonry FatCause: Collapse of structure |