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Accident: 99877.015 - Employee Falls And Fractures Leg When Guardrail Fails
Accident: 99877.015 -- Report ID: 0729300 -- Event Date: 10/11/2017 | |||||||
| Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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| 1270602.015 | 10/16/2017 | Brown Construction | |||||
| At 10:00 a.m. on October 11, 2017, Employee #1, employed by a construction compa ny, was tying steel for a floor pour at a multiemployer construction project, a two-story commercial building. He was working from the second floor when he tri pped and grabbed onto the cable for the guardrail system. The steel upright wel d in the guardrail system failed, and Employee #1 fell to the concrete floor, a fall height of 16 feet. Emergency services were called, and Employee #1 was tra nsported to the hospital. He was admitted and treated for multiple leg fracture s. | |||||||
Keywords:
chain, construction, fall, fall protection, fracture, guardrail, leg, structural collapse, tripped
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| End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
| Commercial building | New project or new addition | $500,000 to $1,000,000 | 2 | 20 | |||
| Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
| 1 | 1270602.015 | 54 | M | Hospitalized injury | Construction trades, n.e.c. | FallDist: 10 FallHt:10 Cause: Erecting structural steel FatCause: |
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