Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 122193.015 - Employee suffers fractures in fall from mobile scaffold

Accident Summary Nr: 122193.015 -- Report ID: 0830500 -- Event Date: 11/25/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1448726.015	12/04/2019		238310	L&L Design Builders, Inc.

Abstract: At 9:15 a.m. on November 25, 2019, an employee was working as a drywall installer for a drywall and insulation contractor. He was part of a project of new work on or an addition to a commercial building, a warehouse at a manufacturing plant. He was installing interior walls and ceilings and so forth. He was finishing drywall while standing on a 4-foot (1.2-meter) mobile scaffold. He misjudged his position and stepped off the planking. He fell to the ground. He suffered a collapsed lung, fractured ribs, and a fractured wrist. He was hospitalized.

Keywords: Broken Bone, Collapsed lung, Commercial Building, Construction, Drywall, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fracture, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Mobile Scaffold, Rib, Scaffold, Walking On Plank, Walking Surface, Warehouse, Work at Elevation, Wrist

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Manufacturing plant		New project or new addition			3	30

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1448726.015	55	M	Hospitalized injury		Drywall installers	Distance of Fall: 4 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 4 feet Cause: Installing interior walls, ceilings, doors Fatality Cause:

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